VANCOUVER – In a wild affair that saw momentum swings and 11 total goals, the University of Calgary Dinos men's hockey had the last laugh, scoring five times in the final period to earn a 7-4 win over the UBC Thunderbirds Saturday afternoon at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.

After the Dinos (10-5-1) staked out a 2-0 lead through 20 minutes, the T-Birds (11-2-1) stormed back scoring four in a row to take a two goal lead of their own heading to the final period.

But in a reversal of fortunes, it was the T-Birds who found themselves chasing all of a sudden as Calgary scored five unanswered en route to the weekend split, handing UBC their first loss on home ice all season.

"In the third period, we got back to things that matter to us and that makes us better," said Calgary head coach Mark Howell. "They're a really good team, they have some high-end offensive guys and we don't have some of those guys. But I thought the second period we let them skate and kind of have an easy transition. I thought in the third we made it a lot harder on them and made their d men work for pucks."

UBC goaltender Rylan Toth entered Saturday on a three-game shutout streak, having tied the Canada West record in the process. But his streak ended at 227:49 just 54 seconds after puck drop as Jake Gricius jammed home a rebound off a Josh Rieger wraparound attempt.

The Dinos doubled their lead late in the period when Jaeger White scored on the power play, Calgary's first man-advantage goal of the weekend on 10 tries.

UBC came out gangbusters in the second, led by a pair of goals from captain Tyler Sandhu who got the ball rolling with a snipe upstairs past Carl Stankowski from in tight for his sixth of the season at the 10:53 mark.
74 seconds later, Scott Atkinson tied the game as he snapped in his fourth from the slot off a nice feed from Jonathan Smart.

Cyle McNabb scored his sixth to give the 'Birds their first lead of the game and Sandhu doubled the lead with 39 seconds left in the period, finishing a 2-on-0 rush with Chris Douglas after just stepping out of the penalty box.

But the T-Birds were unable to maintain momentum in the final 20 minutes. Tyson Upper got the Dinos within one just 4:09 in with his fourth of the season and Arjun Atwal got the visitors even at 10:47 with his third.

Gricius scored his second of the game with what turned out to be the winner with just under four minutes to play. 

The floodgates were then opened as Connor Gutenberg scored an insurance marker just 52 seconds later while Upper added one into the empty net for his second of the afternoon.

The Dinos moved into a tie with the Golden Bears for second in the conference, just two points back of UBC.

Calgary heads back out on the road next weekend as they visit the Golden Bears while the 'Birds also head out of town for a pair of games against the Regina Cougars.