Nov. 25, 2006

Box Score

DENVER - Brock Trotter (Brandon, Manitoba) scored one goal and two assists and Adrian Veideman (Sicamous, British Columbia), Ryan Dingle (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Chris Butler (St. Louis, Mo.) tallied one goal and one assist each to lead the No. 10/11 Denver Pioneers to a 6-2 win tonight in nonconference action before 6,030 fans at Magness Arena.

Ryan Helgason (Woodbury, Minn.) scored his first goal of the season and Tyler Ruegsegger (Lakewood, Colo.) added a goal as the Pioneers outshot Robert Morris 42-27 in their highest scoring effort of the season. Goaltender Glenn Fisher (Edmonton, Alberta) won his fourth consecutive start with 25 saves as the Pioneers extended their unbeaten streak to seven games (6-0-1) and improved to 9-4-1 overall. Robert Morris fell to 4-7-0.

"We came out of the locker room before tonight's game not pleased with last night's performance," Denver head coach George Gwozdecky said. "We saw a little different Pioneer team tonight. We started slowly, but gained confidence as the game went on."

DU started fast and outshot Robert Morris 14-6 in the opening stanza. Helgason staked the Pioneers to a 1-0 lead at 12:46 when pushed his own rebound past Robert Morris goaltender Christian Boucher (36 saves). Ruegsegger made it 2-0 at 18:40 when he scooped up a pass from Patrick Mullen (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and danced past two Colonial defenders and beat Boucher with a quick wrist shot through the five-hole.

Veideman made it 3-0 when he one-timed a perfect feed from Butler at the right faceoff circle on the power play at 9:15 of the second period.

Robert Morris' Tom Biondich scored his first goal of the season at 13:44 to make it 3-1, but Trotter found Dingle on the back door for a power-play goal less than four minutes later to give DU a three goal cushion heading into the third period.

Trotter made it 5-1 when he juked past a Colonial defender at the goal line and slid the puck past Boucher at 1:54 of the third period. Bryan Mills tallied a goal at 4:06 and Butler closed the scoring with a goal at 19:17.

The Pioneers went 2-for-7 on the power play and posted their second consecutive 6-for-6 effort on the penalty kill.

DU returns to action Dec. 1-2 with a home-and-home series with instate rival Colorado College.