Some games will still be in Hartford. Face reality. Your concerns that it will negatively impact the program are silly.
Sorry, but the sooner you and everyone at UConn realize this is flat out wrong, the better the program will be. Here's why:
Hockey players, like most athletes, are creatures of force of habit. It is a great advantage to practice where you play your home games, to understand how the puck bounces off the board, the glass, how the angles of the sideboards play, how the height of the glass plays. It is fundamentally impossible to replicate the same set of boards and glass in two different places. I doubt UConn practices much at XL, at least anything beyond a gameday skate. That would mean that nearly all practice occurs on a completely different ice surface than they play. UConn would be the ONLY school in the entire country with this setup. This is an ENORMOUS recruiting disadvantage. Recruit A can come to UConn and practice on campus, but then have to get on a bus for 30 minutes to go play his home games on an older, completely different surface. Or he can go to Quinnipiac where can practice and play at the same facility on campus.
Not to mention, game times in Hartford will be at odd times since BB and the Wolfpack have scheduling rights ahead of UConn. The XL owners own the Wolfpack too, so that pecking order won't be changing. This means lots of day games, Tuesday games, and other scheduling oddities. Let me tell you, Hockey East teams aren't going to be happy with a plethora of 3:30 Saturday games in Hartford because of a night WP game, after playing the night before. And UConn's club will hate it as well. It's a serious disadvantage.
These are realities, there are more but I don't have time to keep gonig. If they want to play a game or two a year in Hartford, that's one thing and everyone will accept it. But to maintain any sort of regular schedule in Hartford WILL hamper the program from a recruiting and success standpoint. I've been rigorously following the ins and outs of this sport for over a decade, I'm not pulling this out of thin air. The games need to be on campus.