Feb. 16, 2018 — The date will one day fade, as will the finer details of the game. Even the seven-game win streak will become a distant memory. But it is a night will live on in history for a long time.
It is the night UConn hockey officially arrived.
The same night the first UConn senior class to play four years in Hockey East was honored, they changed the course of the program forever.
For the first few seasons of Hockey East play, UConn hockey had limited expectations. After all, it was going to take a few years to build the program up to the lofty standards of the other teams in college hockey’s premier conference.