WINNIPEG – Carter Massier and Hayden Pakkala each scored a pair of goals to help power the No. 2 University of Calgary Dinos to a 5-3 win over Manitoba Saturday from Wayne Fleming Arena.

The win completes the weekend sweep for the Dinos men's hockey team, moving their win streak to nine in a row and improving their season record to 14-2 with one weekend to go before the winter break. Manitoba drops to 4-7-1.

Pakkala got the scoring started on the power play, netting his ninth goal of the season on a one-timer 11 minutes into this one. Just 61 seconds later, Massier scored shorthanded – getting a great lead pass from Stephen Kirkpatrick to get behind the defence and making no mistake to make it 2-0 at the first intermission. 

The Bisons peppered the Dinos with 12 shots in the second, battling back to tie the game on the strength of their special teams. Luke Brenton blasted a one-timer home to make it 2-1 on a five-on-three just 1:41 into play, scoring the ninth power goal of the year for the Herd. 

Less than a minute later at the end of Calgary's second penalty, Brenton contributed again, finding Blake Swetlikoff on a brilliant cross-ice feed which the latter put home with bodies in front. Brenton's two points put him at 11 on the season, which leads all Bisons. 

The conference's leading power play unit had the answer. The Dinos scored twice with the man advantage just over two minutes apart, taking the lead for good with markers at 5:33 and 7:45. 

Brendan Lee made it 3-2 on a tick-tack-toe passing play, one-timing a blast home from just inside the umbrella, and he found Massier on a phenomenal pass right in front of the Herd's crease shortly after, which Massier put home for his fourth goal of the season to double up the Dinos' lead at 4-2 after two. 

Pakkala scored his second goal of the game and his team-leading 10th of the season – by far the most by a rookie in Canada West, thus far to stretch the lead to 5-2. Swetlikoff wrapped up the scoring for Manitoba in the final minute on a one-timer. 

Carl Stankowski finished with 28 saves in this one, while Matthew Kieper made 17 in net for the Bisons.

The Dinos wrap up the first semester next weekend with a home-and-home against rival Mount Royal, starting Friday at Flames Community Arenas. 

Manitoba continues conference play next weekend, facing Regina on the road. 

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