Behind a furious start, UConn men’s hockey closed out the regular season with a 5-3 win over the No. 15 Providence Friars. The Huskies (10-10-2) clinch fourth place in Hockey East standings with the win — their highest finish ever.
UConn dominates early
It took UConn over 10 minutes to fire the opening salvo but once it did, the floodgates quickly opened. Jachym Kondelik got the Huskies started by burying a rebound right in front of net and added a second just 1:42 later off a feed from Jonny Evans.
A few minutes later, Vladislav Firstov bursted into the offensive zone and dropped a pass to Hudson Schandor, who fired the puck into the top-left corner of the net for the score.