UConn men’s hockey Samu Salminen has arrived in the United States after a visa delay prevented the Finnish national from entering the country, The UConn Blog has learned. He flew into Boston and met up with the team ahead of the Huskies’ 4-3 overtime win at BU on Friday.
Salminen missed UConn’s first three series because of the visa problem. He had been taking online classes while he waited. A native of Helsinki, Finland, Salminen’s visa took months to go through after he committed to the Huskies in early August. He was initially slated to go to Denver before running into an admissions issue.