WINNIPEG – The University of Calgary Dinos men's hockey team continued their winning ways Friday night in Winnipeg. The visitors defeated the hometown Manitoba Bisons by a score of 5-2 at the Wayne Fleming Arena. Calgary outshot the Bisons in the game by a total of 50-14.
The Dinos trailed the Bisons at the start of the second period but a pair of goals from first-year Kaden Elder put Calgary in front 3-2 and they never looked back.
The win keeps the Dinos record unblemished, improving to 5-0-0-0 in this early Canada West season.
"Manitoba always has hard working and physical teams," commented Calgary head coach Mark Howell. "We addressed a few things after the first, our leadership group took charge and we came out better in the second, followed by an outstanding third period."
With the loss, the Bisons see their record slip to 2-3-0-0.
"At times we were really good tonight," said Bisons head coach Mike Sirant. "In the second period we dropped our pace and then took too many bad penalties. You can't do that against a team like Calgary."
Despite out-shooting the Bisons 14-5 through the opening frame, the Dinos found themselves down 2-1 heading to the locker room. Calgary's assistant captain Coda Gordon scored the game's opening goal just 1:12 into the game on a delayed penalty. The Bisons managed to stymie the Dinos early momentum with a pair of goals at the 8:00 and 8:44 marks of the first. Josh Tripp finished off a beautiful series of passes for the Bisons' first goal followed by another from Geordie Keane, giving the Bisons a 2-1 lead.
Calgary's Kaden Elder did all the damage to the Bisons in the second period. The Saskatoon native scored his third and fourth goals of the year to give the lead back to his Dinos squad. Teammate and goaltender Matthew Greenfield did his part to keep his team in front with a couple of crucial saves throughout the period.
Calgary's third period goals came off the sticks of Mitch Cook and James Shearer to clinch the victory with the final score reading 5-2 in favour of the visitors.
The two teams will be in action again tomorrow at the Wayne Fleming Arena starting at 2pm local time.
