In its first game at Freitas Ice Forum in 2,443 days, UConn men’s hockey pulled off a late comeback and defeated the No. 7 UMass Minutemen in a shootout by a final score of 2-2 (2-1 shootout).
However, the Huskies’ “victory” tonight will initially go into the record books as a tie since this series is viewed as a non-conference game by Hockey East. If the UConn’s series with UMass in January gets canceled, these two games will then be counted towards the Hockey East standings.
New to Hockey East this season, shootouts will be used to decide a winner if no team scores during a five-minute, 3-on-3 overtime period.