Fast Start Lifts St. Cloud State Men’s Hockey to 4-2 Win over No. 20 Colorado College

Saturday, February 22

St. Cloud, Minn.

6:00 P.M. CT

St. Cloud State

12-17-1, 5-14-1

Colorado College

17-14-1, 11-10-1

Colorado Col.

St. Cloud St.

Fast Start Lifts St. Cloud State Men’s Hockey to 4-2 Win over No. 20 Colorado College

2/23/2025 12:55:00 AM | Men's Hockey

Box Score

Huskies score game’s first three goals, hold on despite being outshot 44-20

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Men's Hockey (12-17-1, 5-14-1 NCHC) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period and held on in a 4-2 win over No. 20/RV Colorado College (17-14-1, 11-10-1 NCHC) on Saturday at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. The win snapped an 11-game winless streak as the Huskies posted their first win since Dec. 29 and first NCHC win since Dec. 7.

Sophomore forward Barrett Hall (Apple Valley, Minn.) led the charge offensively with a two-goal and three-point night while sophomore goaltender Isak Posch (Umea, Sweden) made a career-high 42 saves.

The Huskies jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead with its second-fastest goal to open a game this season, as Hall's first of two goals came at the 3:23 mark of the period. Sophomore forward Verner Miettinen (Espoo, Finland) began the play by winning a puck battle behind the night and giving way to freshman forward Austin Burnevik (Ham Lake, Minn.), who sent a centering pass to the front of the net that got deflected and found Hall's stick, who hammered the puck for the lead. SCSU then doubled its lead at the 9:33 mark right after a power play expired when sophomore forward Daimon Gardner's (Eagle Lake, Ontario) shot from the left dot hit hard of the CC goalie and right to Hall, who's rebound shot made it through the five-hole. The Huskies tacked onto its lead once again later in the period, executing a 3-on-2 odd-man rush. Hall led the rush before dropping a pass to Miettinen, who then dropped a pass back to Burnevik, who waited out the defense and fired a wrist shot near-side for the score and 3-0 lead at the first intermission.

In the second period, CC and SCSU traded goals with sophomore forward Gavyn Thoreson (Andover, Minn.) scoring his second goal of the weekend at the 8:14 mark when he and Gardner finished a 2-on-2 rush to extend the lead to 4-1. In the third period, the Huskies held off a swarming CC attack, as Posch made 16 of his 42 saves over the final 20 minutes to secure the 4-2 win.

TOP HUSKIES

Hall recorded his first career two-goal and three-point game.
Posch made a career-best 42 saves in the game.
Burnevik, Gardner and Miettinen all had two points.

NOTES

With the win, St. Cloud State moves to 68-54-9 all-time against Colorado College and 25-25-6 against the Tigers in St. Cloud.
The Huskies won despite being outshot 44-20 and losing the faceoff battle 45-25.
SCSU turned away CC's lone chance on the power play to improve to 82.4 percent (70-of-85) on the penalty kill this season.
On the season, SCSU improves to 10-3-1 when scoring first, 9-2-0 when leading after the first period, 10-1-0 when leading after the second period and 8-7-1 when its opponent fails to score on the power play.
Hall recorded his first career two-goal game with the Huskies' first two goals and added an assist for a three-point period in the first. His three points also set a new career-high, eclipsing the two points he scored six other times, most recently on Dec. 14, 2014, at North Dakota.
On the season, Hall now has 21 points (7g/14a) for the first 20-point season of his career.
Burnevik extended his team-lead in goals with his 13^th score in the second period while also recording his second career game-winning goal. He added an assist for two points, his sixth game this season with two or more points.
Burnevik's 13 goals rank 17^th on the SCSU freshman single-season list.
Thoreson scored for the second consecutive game and for the fifth time overall this season with a second period score.
Posch recorded a career-high 42 saves in the game, stopping 42 of 44 saves while lowering his goals-against average to 2.10 and raising his save percentage to .928.
Posch reached double digit wins for the first time in his career with his 10^th win of the season, while his 15 career wins rank 18^th all-time for Husky netminders.
Miettinen logged two assists in the game, his 11^th and 12^th of the season. It marked the second time this season and sixth time in his career he has recorded two or more assists.
Gardner recorded a career-high two assists and two points in the game.
Freshman defenseman Colin Ralph (Maple Grove, Minn.) notched his sixth assist of the season with the secondary assist on Hall's second goal.

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St. Cloud State will hit the road for the final time in the regular season next weekend when the Huskies play No. 6/7 Denver on Feb. 28 – March 1 at Magness Arena.

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