By their nature, hockey rinks can be frigid. The environment has to be cold enough for the ice to freeze and be skate-able, which can make places like the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum, the on-campus home of the UConn men’s hockey program, occasionally unpleasant. Sometimes, though, a player needs to experience the unpleasant to come back.
Such is the case of senior forward Jeff Wight, who has been battling shoulder problems throughout his UConn career and missed almost his entire junior season after a dislocated left shoulder, spending hours upon hours at Freitas rehabbing in preparation for his final season as a Husky.