Quinnipiac had won eight straight games over UConn before the Huskies topped the Bobcats in January of this year.

UConn and Quinnipiac, at opposite ends of the state, play in the NCAA Tournament, a good place to kick-start a big-time real hockey rivalry.

Allentown’s PPL Center once again played host to college ice hockey programs as they battled toward the NCAA’s Frozen Four. The arena was the site of the NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey tournament’s Allentown Regional on Friday night.

The University of Connecticut men’s hockey team earned its first ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament. It faces in-state rival Quinnipiac University on Friday, March 28, in Allentown, PA. The puck drops at 5 p.

Mike Cavanaugh has long sought to make UConn hockey a national contender, and part of the winning culture on campus. He’s in the NCAA now.

UConn is coming off a 5-2 loss to Maine, the No. 3 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament in the Hockey East championship game on Friday. The Huskies are 22-11-4 overall on the season and a dark horse team to make the Frozen Four, per former Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player Colby Cohen on the ESPNU bracket reveal show.

Officially it’s the Hockey East championship, but during the league’s four decades it might as well have been called the Bay State Invitational. Year in, year out there has been at least one and usually two Massachusetts sextets playing for the trophy at TD Garden.

Courtesy of @humpshockey Connecticut College is home to 28 varsity sports teams, all of which regularly compete against competitive Division 3, and the occasional Division 1, schools. It can be easy for students,