EDMONTON – Brodan Salmond made 34 saves, leading the University of Calgary Dinos to a 4-0 victory over the MacEwan University Griffins on Friday afternoon at the Downtown Community Arena in Edmonton.

The Griffins fall to 2-3-0 in the standings, while elevating the Dinos to 3-2-0.

Salmond stopped Ryley Appelt at the doorstep early in the second period before staving off some huge Griffins pressure in the waning moments of the middle frame, denying Sean Comrie and Curtis Roach on point-blank chances. 

Salmond even cleaned up his own mistake with 13 minutes left in the third period when he played the puck off the side of his net but scrambled back to deny Ethan Price with a pad stop.

Calgary's Riley Stotts opened the scoring at 15:49 of the first period on the powerplay, going bar down on a perfect shot from the left hash.

Then the Dinos essentially clinched the game on two goals in a span of 1:30 in the middle of the second period. 

Tyson Upper got a piece of a Ryan Graham pass, deflecting it inside the far post past Ty Taylor at 9:15 before Josh Rieger scored on a wraparound to put the game out of reach.

Sean Strange added a fourth goal for the Dinos when he let a wrister go on a one-on-one rush that clinked the crossbar and down.

Riley Brandt led the Griffins with five shots, while Nic Correale, Price and Appelt each had four. Taylor made 23 saves in the loss.

The Dinos and Griffins will meet again on Saturday, at 8 p.m., from the Downtown Community Arena in Edmonton.