November 17 - The University of Calgary Dinos beat the University of Manitoba Bisons 3-2 in overtime Saturday night, for their second victory in as many nights, sweeping the weekend series at Max Bell Arena.

Dinos Forward Reid Jorgensen scored halfway through the extra frame after the Bisons forced overtime with a late third period goal by Travis Kornelson.

“It was a tough break because we battled hard to get the one point. Every shot is a good one in overtime and it looked like the shot changed direction on [Bisons goaltender] Krister,”said Bisons head coach Don MacGillivray, “Calgary is the best 1-5 team I’ve seen thus far because they’ve got a great hockey club.”

The Bisons (6-6-0) came into the game tied with UBC for third place in the Canada West Division standings with 14 points while Calgary (3-5-4) came into the game having just recently snapped an eight game winless streak. The Dinos beat Manitoba 6-4 on Friday night.

Aaron Richards and Kyle Annesley also scored for the Dinos while Manitoba got their goals from Riley Dudar and Kornelson.

The game started slowly until the two teams exchanged rough stuff towards the end of the period as a Dinos players jammed Manitoba goalie Krister Toews. The net result was multiple misconduct penalties and an extra roughing penalty against Manitoba. The Dinos scored on the ensuing power play as Aaron Richards buried a rebound off of a Reid Jorgensen point shot.

The Bisons killed off back to back two man advantages to start the second, aided by the slashing penalty that Jared Aulin took with 30 seconds left in the Richard Wood cross-checking penalty. The Bisons had back to back man advantages of their own but were unable to beat Dinos Goaltender Jeff Weber. The Bisons cycled the puck well and had chance after chance thwarted by the patient Calgary penalty killing unit. Finally, on their sixth power play of the period, Riley Dudar got the home squad on the board.

The Bisons had some quality scoring chances as they opened the third on the power play. Nick Cowan nearly scored as he tipped the puck through two defenders and broke away all alone. The deadlock was broken by Dinos Kyle Annesley who was left wide open as he buried a power play goal to put Calgary ahead 2-1. Travis Kornelsen tied it up with less than four minutes left in the third period with a beautiful individual effort.

The Dinos had more energy in the overtime period and Reid Jorgensen capitalized on an odd man rush, deflecting the Dustin Hatlelid centering pass to win it for the visitors.

The Bisons will hit the road for their next three games, starting on Tuesday with an exhibition match in Bemidji against the Bemidji State Beavers. The team will then travel to Saskatchewan for a weekend set with the University of Regina Cougars (Nov.23th and 24th)

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