EDMONTON – In eerily similar turn of events less than 24 hours prior, the UBC Thunderbirds dominated the final period scoring four times to earn a 7-2 road win over the host MacEwan Griffins Saturday afternoon at Edmonton's Downtown Community Arena.

Tied 2-2 through the opening 20 minutes, the Griffins held in with the Number two ranked T-Birds until once again the visitors' depth and offensive prowess proved to be too much. Liam Kindree scored the game winner early in the second, the first of five unanswered goals to close out the rest of the game for UBC as the blue and gold extend their season-long win streak to ten games.

"Same kind of vibe tonight, they came out hard and I would say they played even more aggressive than last night which is pretty tough in this league when you have the quick turnaround," said UBC head coach Sven Butenschon who's squad had to earn every inch of ice, especially early on. "We kind of went toe-to-toe for the first half of the game and then in the third period it was a similar story where we managed to put four behind them."

As they did in Friday's 5-2 defeat, the Griffins opened scoring in the first period as Kadyn Chabot broke around the defence on the power play and beat Cole Schwebius 5:30 into the game.



UBC didn't even register a shot until they tied the contest at 7:55 when Scott Atkinson's initial shot was stopped by Thomas Davis, but he banked the rebound off his back and in from behind the goal-line.

Sam Huo had all day to pick a corner on Davis just over three minutes later to put UBC up 2-1, but they hadn't even finished announcing that goal when MacEwan equalized 47 seconds later – as Vincent Scott one-timed a pass from Sam Simard past Schwebius.

Even though UBC went up 3-2 in the second period on Liam Kindree's fifth of the season, the Griffins were very much in the game through 40 minutes. Jordan Taupert was stopped on a breakaway midway through the frame that would have tied things up again.



The third belonged entirely to the Thunderbirds who scored four goals on 11 shots.

Jonny Lambos doubled UBC's lead just 2:46 into the final frame, capping off one of many relentless shifts in the offensive zone. Ty Thorpe dished the puck out to Lambos at the top of the right circle. The second year defencemen then sent a clean wrister over Davis' glove for his first goal as a Thunderbird in his 31^st game.

Just 70 seconds later, Sasha Mutala gave UBC a 5-2 lead, finishing a swift Sam Huo pass across the top of the crease for his fifth.



Mutala returned the favour for his linemate on the power play midway through the period when he teed up Huo for a one-timer blast at the 9:47 mark for his team-leading seventh of the season.

Conner McDonald added his fourth of the campaign – tripling his career total as a Thunderbird – with just under five minutes to go when the third-year blue liner banged in a rebound off a Jake Wright shot in tight.

Schwebius finished with 19 saves for his fourth win of the season.

Despite playing three of their last four games on the road, the T-Birds will be right back on a plane late next week, heading back to Alberta when they visit the 6-2 Mount Royal Cougars for a pair of heavyweight contests in Calgary. 

"So far the guys have really bought into the weekly plan, the day-to-day practice habits," Butenschon added of his team's 10 game streak. "We're always challenging them to get better every day and come with a purpose. Next week will be a different animal playing MRU. They're another top ten ranked team and we haven't had a team like that since Alberta in the opening weekend so now the challenge is can we do what we've been doing against a bigger opponent."