Gross and Berzins Earn NCHC Weekly Honors

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – St. Cloud State Men's Hockey junior forward Tyson Gross (Calgary, Alberta) and sophomore goaltender Patriks Berzins (Talsi, Latvia) both earned National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) weekly honors, as announced by the league on Tuesday. Gross was named the forward of the week after a four-goal and five-point weekend while Berzins backstopped the Huskies to a road series sweep over Arizona State.

The weekly honor is the third career honor for Gross, who was named the NCHC Rookie of the Week on March 11, 2024, and the NCHC Forward of the Week on Dec. 9, 2024. He was also named the NCHC Rookie of the Month in March 2024. It is the first career weekly honor for Berzins, as well as the sixth and seventh weekly honors for the Huskies this season.

NCHC Weekly Honors in 2025-26:

Yan Shostak – NCHC Rookie of the Week: Oct. 21
Nolan Roed – NCHC Rookie of the Week: Oct. 28
Finn Loftus – NCHC Defenseman of the Week: Jan. 6
Yan Shostak – NCHC Goaltender of the Week: Jan. 20
Max Smolinski – NCHC Defenseman of the Week: Jan. 20
Tyson Gross – NCHC Forward of the Week: Feb. 10
Patriks Berzins – NCHC Goaltender of the Week: Feb. 10

Gross scored four goals and an assist for five points with a +1 mark on the ice with both game-winning goals, a power play, and a shorthanded goal each night in the sweep over the Sun Devils. Gross had three points in Friday's 4-1 win, scoring SCSU's first goal shorthanded and the game-winning score in the third period before assisting on an empty net goal to seal the victory. On Saturday, Gross scored a power play goal in the second period to take a 2-1 lead and then a shorthanded score with 37 seconds left in the game to lift the Huskies to a 4-3 win. He was named the first star of the game in both nights of the sweep, while his shorthanded goals marked the first time SCSU scored shorthanded goals in back-to-back games since Jan. 21-22, 2022. He recorded his third and fourth two-goal games of the season, as well as the fifth and sixth of his career.

On the season, Gross has scored 18 goals and 19 assists for 37 points with seven power play goals and two shorthanded goals. His 37 points are the most a Husky has scored since Jami Krannila scored 40 points in 2022-23.
In conference games, Gross leads all NCHC skaters in goals (16), points (24) and faceoff wins (277).

Berzins backstopped the Huskies to the sweep in Tempe, posting a 2-0-0 record with 30+ saves in each win, a 2.00 goals-against-average and a .948 save percentage. The Husky goaltender made 33 saves in a 4-1 win on Friday while stopping both power plays before making a career-high 40 saves in a 4-3 win on Saturday, including 19 in the final frame alone. He made nine short-handed saves in the series to help SCSU go 5-for-6 on the penalty kill against ASU's top-10 ranked power play.

On the season, Berzins improved to 9-6-0 with a 2.68 GAA and .916 S%. His save percentage ranks second among NCHC netminders.

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