Five Huskies Score in 5-2 Win over Alaska Anchorage

Friday, October 24

St. Cloud, Minn.

7:00 P.M. CT

St. Cloud State

Alaska Anchorage

Photo by: Jason Soria

10/24/2025 11:55:00 PM | Men's Hockey

Box Score

Five Huskies score and four record two points in series-opening victory

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Men's Hockey (4-2-0, 0-0-0 NCHC) had five different Huskies score in a 5-2 win over Alaska Anchorage (0-3-0, Ind.) on Friday night at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. SCSU jumped out to a 4-0 lead, outshot the Seawolves 36-21 and went 41-20 in the faceoff dot in the series-opening victory.

The Huskies scored 4:47 into the game on a beautiful play from its second line forwards. Sophomore forward Austin Burnevik (Ham Lake, Minn.) started the play behind the goal, shoveling the puck over to freshman forward Noah Urness (Roseau, Minn.) at the goal line, who did a threw a pass behind his back to the slot where freshman forward Nolan Roed (White Bear Lake, Minn.) was ready to one-time his pass into the back of the net. Later in the period, SCSU scored its first of two power play goals on the night on senior defenseman Max Smolinski's (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) second goal of the season. Smolinski was camped out at the top of the left circle with space, and Roed's pass from the top of right circle fed him into a one-timer that deflected off a defender and into the back of the net.

In the second period, the Huskies scored on the power play again when it was Burnevik's turn on a one-time goal. With the Huskies working in the zone for nearly the entire power play, junior forward Barrett Hall (Apple Valley, Minn.) found Burnevik alone atop the right dot and the Huskies leading goal scorer did the rest. Burnevik's slap shot went back-bar and out so fast the referee had to pause a second before signaling goal. Next up was sophomore defenseman Finn Loftus (Blaine, Minn.) scoring his first collegiate goal at 13:30 of the second period to put the Huskies up 4-0. After a flurry in front of the net, junior forward Tyson Gross (Calgary, Alberta) and senior defenseman Mason Reiners (Edina, Minn.) went tape-to-tape at the top of the zone to feed Loftus at the right dot for a one-time slap shot to find the back of the net.

Finally, just before the end of the second period, Hall found the back of the net for the third time this season. Senior defenseman Josh Zinger (Red Deer, Alberta) sent in a shot from the blue line that found Hall's stick and beat the goalie for a score with 4.3 seconds left in the period.

TOP HUSKIES

Gross recorded two assists and went 20-2 in the faceoff dot.
Burnevik, Hall and Roed all had a goal and assist for two points.
Freshman goaltender Yan Shostak (Minsk, Belarus) made 19 saves and earned the win in net.

NOTES

With the win, SCSU improves to 54-17-6 all-time against Alaska Anchorage and 34-4-4 against the Seawolves in St. Cloud.
SCSU's five goals are its highest scoring output this season and the most goals scored since a 5-2 win over Omaha on Dec. 7, 2024.
The Huskies went 2-of-4 on the power play to improve to 40.7 percent (11-of-27) on the man advantage this season. SCSU has scored on the power play in all six games this season, its longest stretch of consecutive games with power play goals since a seven-game stretch from Feb. 4 – March 4, 2023.
SCSU went 41-20 in the faceoff dot while Gross set a career high in faceoff wins with a 20-2 performance in the dot.
After his 20-2 night in the dot, Gross is now 67.2 percent in the faceoff dot (82-40) this season.
With two assists, Gross recorded his second two-assist and second two-point game of the season while recording his fifth career game with two assists and 13^th career game with two points.
Burnevik continued his hot stretch to open the season with his fourth power play and sixth goal overall this season. Since 2001-02, Burnevik is just the fourth Husky to score six goals in the first six games of the season, joining Matt Hendricks (2001-02), Nate DiCasmirro (2001-02) and Grant Cruikshank (2022-23).
Burnevik recorded his second two-point game of the season and eighth of his career. His goal was the game-winning score, his third of the season and fifth of his career.
Hall scored a goal and assist for his third two-point game of the season and 11^th of his career.
Roed had a goal and assist for his second two-point game of the season. His goal was his second of the season.
Smolinski scored his second power play and second goal overall this season.
Loftus scored his first collegiate goal in his 36^th career game.
Senior defenseman Cooper Wylie (Stillwater, Minn.) played in his 100^th career game.
Zinger has two assists in the game, his first game as a Husky with two assists and his fourth career two-assist game.
Reiners, Urness and senior forward Adam Ingram (West St. Paul, Manitoba) each had single assists in the game.

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UP NEXT

SCSU and Alaska Anchorage will finish its series on Saturday with a 6:00 p.m. CT puck drop at the Brooks Center.

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