By Nick Rizner
This week, Hockey East announced their 2017-18 All-Academic Team for men’s and women’s hockey. The honor is reserved for student-athletes who achieve a grade point average of 3.0 or better in each of the two academic periods during the season.
This year, UConn Men’s Hockey had twelve players named to the All-Academic Team. Top goal-scorers Maxim Letunov, Spencer Naas and Alexander Payusov all landed on the list, as well as top defenseman Phillip Nyberg. Naas joined seniors John Austin, Jeff Wright and Kasperi Ojantakanen as UConn’s Distinguished Scholar recipients; student-athletes that earned a 3.