HUSKIES TO FACE UCLA
BRIDGEPORT — Monday HAMDEN — Chase Priskie was an afternoon for SNY to was one of dozens of prep playshow off that it continues to be ers who had come through a galvanizing media and athletic Quinnipiac’s rink to play in a force on the state’s landscape, tournament. He wasn’t far reright through its ability to packmoved from high school hockey age and deliver a signature in South Florida — hardly the event. hotbed Hamden is.
SNY planned, organized and “And after the game, they finalized the formation of “Conwere giving us a tour of the necticut Ice,” a three-day festiarena,” Priskie says. “I kind of val in January 2020 with a got pulled back, ‘Hey, the coach tournament among the state’s wants to talk to you.’ I thought I four Division I college hockey did something wrong. I was programs as its marquee event sweating. I was brought to Rand at Webster Bank Arena, where [Pecknold’s] office, and he told Monday’s announcement took me he wanted me to be a part of place. the program after high school,
It was a wonderful day for and he offered me a position on UConn, Yale, Quinnipiac and the team. I just kept looking at Sacred Heart, and for scores of him, ‘You can’t be serious. This youth leagues involved with is some sort of joke. … Whatever.’”variousinitiativestiedtothe event. Connecticut needs and He was not being pranked. deserves this, and if we are the When he got back to the team’s hockey state we claim to be, bus, Chase Priskie began to we’ll make it work by showing realize that hockey, the game his up and caring. mother introduced into his life
SNY made happen what the practically at birth, would be four schools/programs could more than just a way to get an not make happen themselves, education. He could dream