DENVER – The No. 11 University of Denver hockey team remained undefeated on home ice this season after the Pioneers won 7-1 against the Miami University RedHawks on Saturday night at Magness Arena.
 
Denver is 7-0-0 at Magness, the program's best start to a season on home ice since also winning its first seven outings in the 1977-78 campaign (7-0-0).
 
The Pioneers now head into their second bye week of the year before opening a four-game road trip with a pair of contests at Arizona State on Dec. 3-4 and Minnesota Duluth on Dec. 10-11. Denver's next home series is against Alaska Fairbanks on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
 
Freshman Carter Mazur scored twice for the Pios on Saturday, while sophomore Mike Benning (one goal, two assists) and freshman Carter King (three assists) each recorded a career-high three points. Bobby Brink (one goal, one assist), Conor Caponi (two goals) and McKade Webster (one goal, one assist) also had multi-point outings, and junior goaltender Magnus Chrona stopped 14-of-15 shots.
 
Chrona started for the sixth-straight game and picked up his fourth consecutive victory and the 30th of his career. He only allowed two total goals in the weekend set, with Miami's Jack Olmstead breaking his shutout bid on Saturday with an outside shot through traffic at 2:07 of the third period.
 
Mazur opened the game's scoring for the second night in a row on a coast-to-coast sequence that saw him split two Miami defenders and bury a shot top shelf, extending his goal streak to four games. The Jackson, Michigan, native now has seven tallies on the year, tied for second on the roster with fellow freshman Massimo Rizzo.
 
The Pioneers opened up the game in the second period with four tallies, beginning with a short-handed marker from Webster during a 2-on-1 with Carter King following a faceoff win in the defensive zone. Mazur, Caponi and Brink then all took advantage of rebounds in front of RedHawks netminder Logan Neaton to give DU a comfortable 5-0 lead heading into the second intermission.
 
Brink added to Denver's lead with a backhand shot that went top corner with 6:35 remaining in the third stanza and Caponi added the Pios' second goal shorthanded with 61 seconds to play, picking up his first career multi-goal outing.
 
DU outshot Miami 48-15 in the contest, holding the RedHawks to only three and four shots in the first and second periods, respectively. The 15 total shots against were the fewest allowed by the Pioneers this season.
 

POSTGAME NOTES

• DU improved to 22-13-3 overall and 11-5-3 at home against the RedHawks.
• Reid Irwin collected his first career point with an assist on Carter Mazur's first goal.
• In the first period, the Pioneers tied a season best with allowing only three shots (Oct. 9 vs. Arizona State, third period)
• The Pioneers scored their first short-handed goals since Antti Tuomisto did it on Jan. 23, 2021 versus Omaha.
• McKade Webster scored his first goal of the season, while Carter King registered his first points of the year. King's three points set a new career high and was his first multi-point outing.
• Massimo Rizzo, Bobby Brink and Cole Guttman have recorded four straight games with an assist, while Mike Benning has three straight games with a helper.
• Brink registered his 50th career point and now has 51 during his Denver tenure.
• Guttman picked up his 50th career assist.
• Carter Savoie extended his point streak to four games
• Connor Caponi picked up his first career two-goal outing.

 
GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
10:11 DU (1-0) – Carter Mazur took a pass from Reid Irwin, sliced through the neutral zone, split two Miami defenders and tallied on a wrister from the right circle.
 
2nd Period
6:10 DU (2-0) – SHG, McKade Webster doubled the Pioneers' lead after scoring on a 2-on-1 with Carter King after a faceoff win in the defensive zone.
8:56 DU (3-0) – Carter Mazur recorded his second of the game as Mike Benning's shot went off his stick before trickling across the goal line.
13:32 DU (4-0) – Conor Caponi buried a loose puck in low slot after Carter King's shot caromed off bodies in front.
15:44 DU (5-0) – Mike Benning knocked in a rebound in the blue paint after Bobby Brink's initial shot was stopped
 
3rd Period
2:05 MU (5-1) – Jack Olmstead got the RedHawks on the scoreboard with a shot from the blue line that got through traffic.
13:24 DU (6-1) – Bobby Brink went top shelf with a backhander.
18:59 DU (7-1) – SHG, Carter King threw the puck to the front of the net on a rush up the ice and Conor Caponi knocked it in for his second tally of the game.
 
 
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