VANCOUVER - The no. 5 ranked McGill Redmen's potent offensive attack was on full display Saturday night as they dispatched the UBC Thunderbirds 6-4 at Father Bauer Arena in a non-conference exhibition game. The Redmen tallied four of their six markers on special teams with another of their goals coming just seconds after UBC had killed off a McGill man advantage.
Guillaume Doucet led the Redmen with a hat trick, including a pair in the first eight minutes of the third period. His third goal, a nifty bit of work in close on a rebound, counted as the game winner for the Redmen who are now 1-2-0 on their Canada West holiday trip that saw them lose a pair of one goal games to the Alberta Golden Bears last weekend.
Clayton Bauer had a pair for the Thunderbirds with
Craig Lineker and
Jordan Inglis also finding the back of the net for the hosts.
Lineker tied the game 3-3 at the 1:03 mark of the third period as his slapshot went off McGill goalie Hunter Shaw's glove and into the net, bringing UBC all the way back from a 3-0 deficit.
The Redmen responded just over two minutes later with Doucet tallying his second of the game on the power play. He added another four minutes later and then Marc-Andre Dorion provided an insurance marker at 12:08 to all but seal the win.
Bauer added his second of the game with 1:50 to play, banging home a rebound after a scrum in front of the McGill net, but a second three-goal comeback by UBC was not on, as the Redmen held the hosts off the scoresheet the rest of the way.
Shaw earned the victory making 35 saves while UBC rookie
Jordan White made 24 saves in the loss.
The visiting Redmen opened the scoring with a pair of power play markers just over 13 minutes into the first period. McGill took advantage of a pair of T-Bird penalties on the same shift with Yan Turcotte blasting a low point shot through a crowd in front on a 5-on-3 advantage at 13:26. The offensively gifted visitors wasted little time adding a second power play goal as Doucet finished off a nice tic tac toe just 52 seconds later.
Jean-Francois Boisvert made it 3-0 McGill early in the second as he stole the puck at the Redmen blueline on the penalty kill and went 120 feet untouched before beating White just over three and a half minutes into the middle frame
Inglis tallied the T-Birds first goal just under nine minutes into the second, wristing home a shot from the right face-off circle after some sustained pressure by the hosts.
Bauer pulled UBC to within one with a great individual effort 14 and a half minutes into the middle period. The 6-foot-1 forward knocked down the McGill clearing attempt in the neutral zone and carried the puck into the Redmen zone before firing a wrist shot from the left boards which Shaw high glove side.
The Redmen finished the game 3-of-7 on the power play while UBC was 0-for-4. The two teams combined for 19 penalties (54 minutes) in a fast and physical game.
The two schools meet again Sunday afternoon at Father Bauer Arena. Puck drop is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
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