EDMONTON –The No. 1-ranked University of Calgary Dinos men's hockey team lit up the scoreboard on Friday night, defeating the MacEwan Griffins 8-1 at the Downtown Community Arena.

Max Patterson and Noah King scored two goals each, while Jake Gricius, Riley Stotts, Marty Westhaver and Josh Maser also replied for the visitors as they outshot MacEwan 49-13 to extend their Canada West record winning streak to 22 games.

The victory also saw the Dinos establish a new program record with 24 wins in a single season. The Dinos have a 24-3-0 in Canada West competition with one game remaining.

Ryley Appelt scored the lone marker in the loss for MacEwan, who remain tied for the final playoff spot with the Regina Cougars, but will need a win or at least a point, and a Regina loss on Saturday to clinch the final playoff spot.

MacEwan sits at 9-17-1 heading into Saturday's finale.

The Dinos led 1-0 on Paterson's 12th goal of the season, just 1:46 into the contest. The opening 20 minutes were dominated by the Dinos, and MacEwan was doing a solid job of holding on, but Westhaver's eighth goal of the season with 1:32 left, and Stotts' 10th goal with just 19 seconds left, snuffed out any chance of MacEwan escaping the first period with a small deficit. Instead, it was a big hole.

The Dinos continued to pour it on in the second period, scoring three more goals on starter Thomas Davis.

King scored his fifth of the season, just 4:36 into the second. Two minutes later Gricius made it 5-0 and just 1:40 after that Maser would let go a rocket from the slot to make it 6-0.

Three goals in just 3:40 put the game far out of reach for MacEwan.

Knowing the way was far too out of reach, the Griffins focused on just having a strong third period, in hopes of gaining some positives heading into their rematch in Calgary on Saturday.

Appelt finished off a nice pass from senior Nic Correale to break Carl Tetachuk's shutout bid at the 6:20 mark of the third, and they showed some push-back after a nightmare first 40 minutes.

The Dinos and Griffins will close out the Canada West regular season on Saturday night with a 6 p.m. puck drop at Father David Bauer Arena.