CALGARY – The University of Calgary Dinos men's hockey team earned a 4-0 win over the Trinity Western University Spartans from inside Father David Bauer Arena on Friday night.
Calgary moves to 3-0 on the year, outscoring their opponents 16-4 thus far this season.
Meanwhile, the Spartans drop their season opener to fall to 0-1.
Trinity Western came out on the front foot early and owned four of the first five shots of the game after 10 minutes of play.
Calgary took control in the final 10 minutes of the first with nearly the entirety of that time spent with the Dinos on the attack. That finally paid off as
Jake Gricius netted his second of the season on the power play with just under four minutes to play in the first.
TWU nearly leveled things in the waning moments of the first, but Jarrett Penner's shot with two seconds left was hauled in by
Carl Tetachuk to thwart the chance.
The Dinos doubled their lead less than two minutes into the second on a snipe of a shot by
Colson Gengenbach. The third year took a feed from his own end and took on a pair of defenders before firing from just inside the zone for his second of the year to make it 2-0.
Calgary made it 3-0 less than three minutes into the third period.
Noah King took the puck just inside the blue line, calmly skated to the middle of the ice before ripping one from distance that found its way through a crowd and into the back of the net just 2:34 into the third.
The Spartans thought they finally solved Tetachuk with just over four minutes left in the third when Skyler Cameron sent one far post that caromed off the frame but ricocheted into the pads of the Dinos goalkeeper.
Riley Stotts added an empty netter with 2:17 left for his first goal and eighth point of the young season.
Tetachuk was credited with 19 saves for his first shutout and second win of the year for Calgary.
Rookie Leon Sommer was big on the night for the Spartans, keeping the game from getting out of hand with a number of key stops – finishing the night with 39 saves in his U SPORTS debut.
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