COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The No. 3 Denver Pioneers hockey team picked up its fourth straight shutout against Colorado College on Friday night with a 5-0 victory at Ed Robson Arena.
 
DU has posted clean sheets for 12 straight periods and has a 246-minute and seven-second shutout streak against CC dating back to the end of last season. The Pioneers swept their series against the Tigers earlier this year on Jan 21-22 by 5-0 and 4-0 scores, which marked the first time in the 72-year history of the rivalry that one team swept a weekend set with a pair of shutouts
 
Colorado College last scored late in the third period on Feb. 25, 2021 in a 5-1 Denver victory. The Pioneers won 4-0 in last year's regular-season finale on Feb. 27.
 
Goaltender Magnus Chrona has been in net for each of the shutouts and made 19 saves on Friday against the Tigers. He now has six clean sheets in 2021-22, the most in a campaign by a DU goalie since Marc Cheverie also had six in 2009-10 and tied for the third-most in a season in program history.
 
Five different players scored for Denver in the first half of the home-and-home set with CC, as Bobby Brink, Cameron Wright, Kyle Mayhew, Connor Caponi and Carter Mazur all found twine. Wright and Mayhew also contributed an assist each in the contest, and Massimo Rizzo recorded a multi-point outing as well with two helpers.
 
The Pioneers got off to a good start as NCAA-leading scorer Brink tallied just 3:44 after the opening faceoff, taking a stretch pass from Carter Savoie that went off the neutral zone boards before depositing the puck five-hole on a rush
 
Wright tallied his team-leading 20th goal of the season midway through the first period to double Denver's lead, but the highlight of the game came early in the middle frame from Mayhew. A fortuitous bounce off the wall led to a failed clear for CC, as the puck went right to the senior defenseman's stick at the blue line. Mayhew then skated through the slot and scored his second goal of the season with a backhand.
 
Caponi tallied his fourth of the year off a pass from McKade Webster with 5:52 before the second intermission and Mazur recorded the Pios' fifth of the night with three seconds left in regulation.
 
The Pioneers outshot the Tigers 36-19 in the contest. Both teams went 0-for-4 on the power play.
 
The weekend series wraps up on Saturday at Magness Arena in Denver as the teams close the regular season. DU will be celebrating its five seniors before the game, which begins at 7 p.m. MT and will be televised regionally on Altitude 2.
 
 
POSTGAME NOTES

• While DU retained the Gold Pan Trophy with its series sweep in January, the Pioneers guaranteed themselves the win outright with the Friday night victory.
• Denver now has seven team shutouts this season, tied with the 1967-69 and 2003-04 squads for the second-most in a single campaign in program history.
• Magnus Chrona now has nine career shutouts, tied with Tanner Jaillet for the fifth most in school history.
• Bobby Brink scored his 14th goal of the season and now has 51 points on the year.
• Cameron Wright became the first DU player to score 20 goals in a season since Henrik Borgstrom (23) and Jarid Lukosevicius (21) both did it in 2018-19.
• Lane Krenzen recorded an assist for his first point of the season and second of his career.

 
GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
3:45 DU (1-0) – Carter Savoie banked a stretch pass off the neutral zone boards and right to Bobby Brink, who scored five-hole on the rush.
11:04 DU (2-0) – Cameron Wright took a pass from Massimo Rizzo and tapped the puck into an open net from the right side.
 
2nd Period
5:29 DU (3-0) – The puck took a weird carom off the half-wall and right to Kyle Mayhew at the blue line, and Mayhew skated right through the slot and scored on a backhand shot.
14:08 DU (4-0) – Connor Caponi took a pass from McKade Webster and chipped the puck into the cage from the low slot.
 
3rd Period
19:57 DU (5-0) – Carter Mazur buried the puck during a scramble around the crease.
 
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