-> One of the defensive pairings for UConn is senior Jake Flynn from Bridgewater with freshman Tom Messineo, a native of Westwood who played at St. Sebastian’s.
“The synergy that they have together, because they’re both excellent skaters and they defend really well, we kind of found it organically,” said coach Mike Cavanaugh. “It wasn’t something that we thought in the beginning of the year, ‘Let’s pair these two together. I think they’ll be a great pair.’
“It just kind of happened. We were moving people around in the preseason and the two of them seemed to play pretty well off each other.”. <-