DULUTH, Minn. – The No. 1 Denver Pioneers hockey team rallied from a two-goal deficit and won 3-2 in overtime against the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs on Friday night at Amsoil Arena.
 
Sophomore Tristan Broz scored the game-winner 2:14 into the extra session to complete DU's first multi-goal comeback of the season. The Pioneers are now on a four-game winning streak, tied for their longest of the campaign, and have won their last five road contests.
 
Broz's third goal of the season was also his first career overtime tally and his first game-winner at Denver.
 
"Mike (Benning) made a good standup on the one-on-one there on (Isaac) Howard," Broz said. "I just saw a lane to go up the ice and Mike and [Jared Wright] made a great play over to me, and I'm fortunate that it went in."
 
Denver (13-4-0, NCHC 7-2-0) and Minnesota Duluth (8-9-0, NCHC 4-5-0) wrap up their weekend series on Saturday at 6 p.m. MT. The game will be broadcasted on NCHC.tv.
 
Sophomores Massimo Rizzo and Carter Mazur also scored for the Pioneers, who trailed 2-0 after the Bulldogs tallied a pair of power-play goals in the first 12 minutes of the game.
 
"We probably didn't start the way we wanted. Taking two penalties in the first 10 minutes is not how you draw it up," said Richard and Kitzia Goodman Hockey Head Coach David Carle. "We did respond after that (UMD's two goals). You're looking up and shots were 8-1 or 9-1 at one time and you end the period at 11-9, so we did have a little bit of a pushback after that, but we still didn't feel like we were skating to the level that we needed to. We knew they were going to come out hard and they did."
 
DU cut the deficit to one heading into the first intermission, as Rizzo scored on a man advantage after taking a stretch pass from goaltender Magnus Chrona with 1:37 remaining in the initial stanza. Mazur knotted the contest at 2-2 with a redirection on a feed from Jack Devine at 1:04 of the third period.
 
Chrona finished with 23 saves, including stopping all 14 shots in the final two-plus periods of play. His assist on Rizzo's goal was the fifth of his collegiate career and his first-ever primary helper.
 
Rizzo's goal was his eighth of the season and extended his career-long goal streak to four games, which is also the longest of the season on the team. In addition to assist on Broz's game-winner, junior defenseman Mike Benning also had a helper on Mazur's game-tying tally to move his personal point streak to a season-long four contests.
 
The Pioneers finished 1-for-6 on the power play and killed off their final two penalties of the game, including UMD's final power play with 2:38 left in the third period.
 
Denver edged Duluth 33-25 in shots on goal and 24-14 after the opening stanza.
 
 
POSTGAME NOTES

• The Pioneers and Bulldogs were meeting for the first time since DU ended UMD's 2021-22 season in the NCAA West Regional Final on March 26 in Loveland, Colorado.
• Denver is now 130-88-13 all-time against Duluth and 47-44-8 on the road in the series.
• DU's four-game winning streak is tied for a season long, and the team has now won seven of its last eight outings (7-1-0).
• The Pioneers' five-game road winning streak is their longest such stretch since Dec. 8, 2018-Jan. 5, 2019 (non-shootout wins).
• Denver played its third overtime game of the season and is now 2-1 in extra time and 1-1 in OT in NCHC play.
• Massimo Rizzo extended his career-long goal streak to four games (4g/0), the longest of the season by a DU player. The longest goal streak last season was four games as well, with Carter Mazur tallying from Nov. 12-20, 2020.
• Goaltender Magnus Chrona recorded an assist on Massimo Rizzo's goal in the first period for his fifth career helper and first-ever primary assist. Overall, it was his first assist since Feb. 25, 2021 at Colorado College.
• Defenseman Mike Benning is on a season-long, four-game point streak (3g/4a)
• Denver had its season-long penalty kill streak end at seven in a row.
• Dominic James had his goal at 11:50 of the third period overturned after the Pioneers won a coach's challenge for goaltender interference. Ben Steeves made contact with the DU netminder during a scramble around the crease.

 
GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
6:23 UMD (0-1) – PPG, Dominic James tallied on a wrist shot from the right circle.
11:42 UMD (0-2) – PPG, Ben Steeves received a cross-ice pass and scored from the right circle 21 seconds into a man advantage.
18:23 DU (1-2) – PPG, Massimo Rizzo took a stretch pass from goaltender Magnus Chrona in the neutral zone, cut to the inside and scored on a wrist shot.
 
2nd Period
No Scoring
 
3rd Period
1:04 DU (2-2) – Carter Mazur redirected the puck into the net five seconds after a DU power play expired.
 
Overtime
2:14 DU (3-2) – Tristan Broz took a pass from Jared Wright and scored the game-winner, as his shot from the slot hit iron and twine.
 
 
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