October 13 - The University of Saskatchewan Huskies snuck out of Manitoba with a weekend sweep, after a last minute goal gave them a 4-3 victory over the University of Manitoba Bisons.

Mason Wallin's goal with 30-seconds remaining in the game, keep the Huskies undefeated and atop the Canada West standing with a 4-0-0 record. With the loss, Manitoba drops to .500 at 2-2-0.

Saskatchewan also got goals from Brett Novak, Steven Gillen, and Colin Patterson, while Mike Hellyer, Chris Fallon and Nick Cowan replied for the Bisons.

Krister Toews was once again the busier of the two goalies, as he faced 37-shots in the loss for Manitoba. Jeff Harvey got the call in net for Saskatchewan, while Friday's starter Russel Monette rested. Harvey turned aside 14-shots to pick up the win.

Head coach Don MacGillivray, thought the Bisons improved from their 3-1 loss on Friday night.

"I thought the pace of the game was better," said MacGillivray. "But this one hurts a lot more then last night cause we had a chance to win it. We did some questionable things at the end of the game, and it was a disappointing end"

Manitoba did manage to prevent Saskatchewan from scoring a powerplay goal after giving up two on Friday. The Bisons held the Huskies to 0-10 with the man advantage.

"If you're looking for bright spots, our penalty kill was very good. Our goaltending was real good to give us a chance to win the hockey game, but we have some things that we have to get better at for sure."

Manitoba jumped out to an early lead, taking advantage of a Saskatchewan penalty, to score only: 40 seconds into the game. With Novak in the box for high sticking, Chris Fallon got the puck in the slot, protecting it with his body. He passed it to Hellyer at the right of the net who buried it behind Harvey for the 1-0 Bison lead.

Novak made amends just less than six minutes later, when pulled the Huskies with a goal of his own. As he skated in down the left wing, he one timed a pass from Casey Lee on the opposite wing. The Saskatchewan give-and-go evened the score at 6:23.

The Bisons regained the lead off of some hard work by Kyle Howarth and Travis Kornelsen. Howarth dug out the puck from a scrum in front of the Huskies bench, head-manning it to Kornelsen who out-skated the Huskies defender and got it across to Fallon. He chipped it over Harvey as the Saskatchewan netminder slide across. That made the score 2-1 for Manitoba at 16:29.

Saskatchewan responded quickly, scoring :58 seconds later, when Gillen slapped at a puck that just made it across the Manitoba goal line. Toews was on his back from making an initial save and couldn't quite get his glove on the puck as he reached behind him.

The remainder of the first period and the second became a penalty filled affair with a stream of Bisons and Huskies heading to the box. Each team having to kill off two-man advantages – Manitoba having to do it twice.

The next goal didn't come until the 12:26 of the third period when Cowan swatted home a bouncing puck. Harvey made a shoulder save that sent the puck flying into the air and Cowan was able to pick it out of the air for a 3-2 Bison lead.

Manitoba's lead was short-lived though as Patterson scored on a deflection from a Curtis Austring shot from the point. That tied the game at three at 14:56.

Then Wallin provided the heartbreaker, throwing a shot on goal from the right face-off dot that Toews just couldn't squeeze as it went under his blocker arm.

Manitoba will not have any Canada West regular season games next weekend, but they will journey to Omaha, Nebraska for a pair of exhibition games against the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the University of Canisius-Alabama. The Bisons next Canada West action will be October 26 and 27 when they host the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

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