Box Score
CALGARY – Maddux Martin's overtime winner propelled the Mount Royal University Cougars men's hockey team to a 3-2 victory over the MacEwan University Griffins on Saturday evening at Flames Community Arena.
Ruslan Jamaldinov tallied his fourth of the season to open the scoring on Saturday. The Swedish rookie tapped home a slick pass from
Vaughn Watterodt, who fooled Griffins netminder Zac Onyskiw.
Jamaldinov's marker midway through the first would be the only goal of the opening period; although, the Cougars controlled the pace of play through the first 20 minutes.
Early in the second, Mount Royal doubled up on MacEwan with
Dawson Seitz getting his fifth goal of his rookie campaign.
The wheels began to fall off for the Cougars following Seitz's goal. Their intensity became lackluster much to the frustration of the coaching staff, who pleaded with their team to return to form.
MacEwan would take advantage of the poor play from MRU, stealing the puck below the goal line and eventually beating Cougars goalie
Ethan Buenaventura. Zach Coutu would get credit for the goal, his second of the year.
The Griffins continued their climb back and found an equalizer. Kadyn Chabot took advantage of yet another MRU turnover in their own end when he scored his fifth of the season to bring the Griffins level.
A scoreless, penalty filled third period would push the game to three-on-three overtime.
Flurries of chances would lead to
Maddux Martin being all alone with the game on his stick and he would beat Onyskiw fivehole.
"I think it might've been on a line change and I just got lost behind their D, [
Harry Ahlberg] made a great bank pass up to me and I saw an opening fivehole," said Martin.
Martin and the Cougars complete the weekend sweep over a competitive two games with the Griffins. Mount Royal improves to 9-1-0 while MacEwan falls to 4-4-2 through ten games.
