Tyler Helton begins his third season as an assistant coach on Mike Cavanaugh’s coaching staff in 2020-21.  Helton has been a part of the UConn men’s hockey program since his freshman year in Storrs in 2012.  He will assist the program working with the Husky defensemen, special teams and assisting with all aspects of recruiting.

Helton initially joined Coach Cavanaugh’s staff in the fall of 2013 and worked with the program as a student assistant and graduate manager for five seasons.

He was responsible for developing scouting reports on opponents and worked with the entire coaching staff on practice planning.  Helton worked with players in individual skill sessions and assisted with coaching the Huskies special team units.

He was responsible for all aspects of team video including pre-scout and post-game video break down, training student managers on in-game video and stats and breaking down NHL games for use as teaching points for players.

Away from Storrs, Helton has worked with USA Hockey district camps in New England and the Atlantic regions since the fall of 2016, scouting and evaluating top players and assisting with practice planning.  He worked as a coach at the Western Regional High-Performance Camp in 2017 and 2018, working with players from the western United States.  He began working with USA Hockey at the national camp in the summer of 2014 and has been a part of that program every summer since, coaching and evaluating players and assisting with player selection for the U17 and U16 teams.

Helton completed an USA Hockey internship in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the summer of 2016 as well as working with the USA Hockey Five Nations team that year.  He also served as a coach with the Yale Midget AA split season teams in 2016 and 2017.

Helton, who played for the Huskies as a freshman in 2012-13, graduated with a degree in sport management from UConn in 2016.  He earned his master’s degree in sport management in 2018.