Tage Thompson was the first UConn men’s hockey player with big fanfare around him. Cole Schneider made the NHL for the first time in 2015-16, but he was picked up as an undrafted free agent and has been an up-and-down player, playing in six NHL games. Thompson played for the US National Development Team prior to coming to Storrs and played for the United States in the IIHF World Junior Championship, a program first.
Thompson now has the chance to make good on the promise that he showed playing for the Huskies when he scored 64 points in just two seasons as he made the St.