“I made a lot of good memories with the guys there and the coach nothing but respect for them. “I never expected to be on the other bench playing against Yale,” said O’Neil, who graduated from Yale last year while the team missed out on the season. The graduate-student transfer scored the second goal to give UConn the lead with 3:23 left in the period. Former Yale forward O’Neil was in on both of the first-period goals. We had to put forth an effort that was going to be a championship-like effort.”Īn ex-Bulldog helped. We knew they were going to come out and play hard.
They’ve won the big one,” the 2013 NCAA championship, Cavanaugh said.
The Bulldogs still struck first Saturday, but UConn scored goals 27 seconds apart late in the first period, and the Huskies added two in the first 81 seconds of the second period. The tournament didn’t happen in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic Yale didn’t play the 2020-21 season and was left young and inexperienced. Yale (5-11-1) will face the late game’s loser in the consolation at 1 p.m. They will face the winner of Saturday night’s game between Sacred Heart (9-11-3 coming in), who won the 2020 championship, and No. The Huskies (12-10-0) will play that game game Sunday at 4:30 p.m. We’re going to need that type of effort in the championship game.” “He’s found a little chemistry there with (Jachym Kondelik) and Kevin O’Neil. “He’s really been competing at both ends of the ice, especially since he came back from Christmas. Tonight, he got rewarded for it,” UConn coach Mike Cavanaugh said in an online news conference. “Vladdy’s been playing really well lately. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Show More Show Less Yale’s Teddy Wooding, left, and UConn’s Carter Berger battle for the puck during the third period of the Huskies’ victory in Saturday’s opening round of the Connecticut Ice tournament at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Show More Show Less 4 of7
Yale goalie Luke Pearson makes a sprawling save on a shot by UConn’s Jachym Kondelik during the third period of the Huskies’ victory in the opening round of the Connecticut Ice tournament Saturday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Show More Show Less 3 of7 UConn players converge on Yale goalie Luke Pearson in the first period on their way to a victory in the opening round of the Connecticut Ice tournament Saturday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Show More Show Less 2 of7 New Canaan’s Briggs Gammill starts for Yale in the opening round of the Connecticut Ice tournament Saturday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport.
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