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During this time, the team's home rink was the UConn Ice Arena, an outdoor facility. The team was finally promoted to D-I in 1998 when the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum was completed. The Huskies used the Forum as their home for the next 18 years. In 2014, UConn joined Hockey East despite the Ice Forum not meeting the league's requirements. [2]
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum was a 2,000-seat hockey rink in Storrs, Connecticut. It was the longtime home arena and recent practice facility for the University of Connecticut women's and men's college ice hockey teams. Freitas Ice Forum opened on November 7, 1998, replacing the outdoor UConn Ice Arena, which was in use since the 1960s.
It was named after industrialist and 1943 UConn graduate Harry A. Gampel, a philanthropist who walked with Martin Luther King Jr., and who donated $1 million for the construction of the arena. It is about 216,000 sq ft (20,100 m 2). Gampel Pavilion is the primary home to the UConn Huskies men's basketball and women's basketball teams.
Sep. 20—In recognition of the philanthropy of University Board of Trustees chairman Dan Toscano and his family, the new state-of-the-art ice hockey arena being constructed in Storrs will bear ...
The UConn men’s hockey team moved up to No. 8 in the latest USCHO.com Top 25 rankings on Monday, and for the first time ever, the Huskies received a No. 1 vote. The move up came after a 5-1 ...
While the arena has a hockey capacity of 15,635, UConn has capped ticket sales at 8,089. Select home games have also been played at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport. UConn opened a new on-campus arena for the 2023–24 season. The new facility, known as the Toscano Family Ice Forum, [17] is adjacent to the former Freitas Forum. Both the ...
UConn is on that list. During the 2010-11 season, the Huskies, led by Kemba Walker, gave the college basketball world a hint of the team's championship potential by ...
The Huskies men's ice hockey program began in 1960 under head coach John Chapman. UConn began NCAA competition at the NCAA Division III level in the ECAC East. [4] Prior to 1998, the Huskies played all home games outdoors at a partially enclosed rink on-campus near Memorial Stadium. The UConn Hockey Rink had a roof but was open on the sides. [5]