EDMONTON – The University of Calgary Dinos scored four unanswered goals to defeat the MacEwan Griffins 4-1 on Saturday night, sweeping their Canada West quarterfinal series at the Downtown Community Arena.

MacEwan held a 1-0 lead entering the third period and was keeping the Dinos in check, but Calgary scored twice in a 2:25 span and added two empty-netters to pull out the win.

Pavel Bocharov, Adam Kydd, Jake Poole and Logan Hauer tallied for the Dinos, who will move on and face the Mount Royal Cougars in the Canada West semifinal.

Carl Tetachuk made 24 saves for Calgary in his ninth-career playoff win.

Caden Cabana scored the lone goal for MacEwan, while Carson Ironside made 22 saves in the loss.

"This was a hard test, and playoff games are. It's the way our league is. It's one of the hardest leagues to score goals in, it's a hard league to win in, and to play and win a best-of-three on the road, I give our guys credit," said Dinos head coach Mark Howell.

"They dug in for the third period… and I thought the third period was the best we played all weekend."

The game was scoreless after the opening frame, but both teams had some decent scoring looks. MacEwan outshot Calgary 10-6 and was putting some good forechecking pressure on the Dinos' blueliners.

The Griffins were rewarded with their strong forechecking pressure on Cabana's goal. The veteran forward leaped in the air and picked off a clearing attempt, walked into the slot, and beat Tetachuk to give MacEwan a 1-0 lead at the 13:24 mark of the second period.

One night after the Griffins surrendered three power play goals, MacEwan's PK came up large in Game 2. The Dinos had five power play chances in Game 2, and the Griffins were able to kill off all but one.

Unfortunately, Calgary's game-winner came on the power play. Moments after getting absolutely robbed by Ironside, who pushed off his post to deny Kydd with a big cross-crease save, he made no mistake, ripping home a shot over Ironside from the slot just over 30 seconds later.

"The power play won us the game last night, and it won us the game again tonight," said Howell.

"I thought in the third period we didn't give them much. We got to the goal line and played more responsible hockey," said Howell.

Game 1 of the Canada West semifinal between the Dinos and Cougars is set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 at Flames Community Arenas.