Girls’s Hockey Picked to End First in Hockey East Preseason Poll

STORRS, Conn. – For the second consecutive yr, the UConn ladies’s hockey group was voted to complete first within the Hockey East Association Preseason Coaches’ Poll introduced on Tuesday morning.

Under head coach Chris MacKenzie, UConn has received back-to-back Hockey East common season championships in 2023-24, and 2024-25. The Huskies have put collectively two consecutive 19-win seasons in Hockey East play. Before the 2023-24 season, the Huskies solely had one season with 15+ wins in convention play within the 26-year historical past of this system.   

UConn returns many key gamers to this yr’s roster from a season in the past, together with two of Hockey East’s prime particular person award winners, Goaltender of the Year, Tia Chan, and Rookie of the Year, Claire Murdoch. Chanbegan in 24 video games a season in the past, recording 632 saves and posting a .945 save proportion, which was prime amongst lively Hockey East goaltenders and third nationally. Chan was a 2024-25 HCA Goalie of the Year finalist. Murdoch is coming off a sensational rookie marketing campaign in Storrs the place she performed in all 36 video games and led the Huskies in factors (29), ending among the many prime level leaders in Hockey East. Murdoch completed with 13 objectives on the season, three being sport winners. 

UConn opens the 2025-26 season on September 26 & 27 with a two-game sequence in opposition to St. Cloud State on the Toscano Family Ice Forum. 

1. UConn – 86 (5)

2. Boston University 82 (5)

3. Northeastern 76

4. Boston College – 64

5. Providence – 61

6. New Hampshire – 44

T7. Maine – 41

T7. Vermont – 41

9. Holy Cross – 27

10. Merrimack -18

First place votes in parenthesis