After starring on the ice at the XL Center as one of UConn hockey’s first elite recruits, Maxim Letunov finally got his shot in the NHL this week after being called up by the San Jose Sharks.
Letunov, who was originally drafted in the second round of the 2014 draft by the St. Louis Blues, had his rights traded to the Arizona Coyotes while he was at UConn before the Sharks acquired him in 2016.
At UConn, the Moscow, Russia native was hyped up as a big-time recruit and chose the Huskies late in the recruiting process after being unable to get admitted into Boston University.