STORRS — The history has a new chapter, the standards are elevated, the profile is higher and the road ahead is dicier. But one thing has not changed around the UConn hockey team :

“Hungry,” Ryan Tattle said.

“Yeah, hunger, that’s a good word,” teammate Joey Muldowney said. “Obviously, going into last year, we were a hungry team. Nobody respected us. But after last season, we have this bad taste in our mouth. Can’t really describe it, it just doesn’t sit well, after what happened in Allentown.”

The Huskies are back on the ice, two weeks away from the start of the new season, Oct. 3 at Colorado College. Much of the team, all but seven newcomers, is back wearing the pride that comes with being the first UConn team to play in the NCAA men’s hockey tournament, the first to advance wit

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