This was expected to be UConn's final season playing home games at the XL Center in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.

In May, 2021, UConn began construction on a new 2,600-seat arena on its Storrs campus that will be home to both the Huskies men's and women's hockey programs upon its opening, planned for the 2022–23 season.

Graduate Darion Hanson, who had transferred to UConn the year before, won the job and held the position for the duration of the season.

The biggest impediment to the Huskies was the poor non-conference record for their entire conference which downgraded the team's overall strength of schedule.

Though UConn was guaranteed to finish with a winning record at the beginning of the playoff, they also knew that they had no chance to make the NCAA tournament without a conference championship.