When UConn first announced they were moving to Hockey East, I'm pretty sure I laughed at it. Their announcement came in the summer following the 2011-2012 season, a year in which they finished in eighth place in Atlantic Hockey. Anyone who watched that team thought they were competitive, but stepping up to a league where Boston College just won a national championship, with UMass-Lowell and Boston University, was program suicide.
Four years later, the Huskies are a respectable, growing program. They're on solid footing, and even though they aren't close to the top of the league in the standings, they're a team few teams take lightly.