TEMPE, Ariz. – The No. 2 University of Denver hockey team fell 6-5 in overtime on Friday night in a back-and-forth game against the No. 16 Arizona State Sun Devils at Mullett Arena.
 
Neither squad was able to produce a multi-goal lead in a contest that featured five ties and was mostly played with an even score. The longest advantage that either squad had on the scoreboard was 10:09 in the first period when ASU held a 1-0 lead.
 
"Giving up six (goals) is not in our identity and not what we want to be doing," and Richard and Kitzia Goodman Hockey Head Coach David Carle. "Giving up four, one-goal leads quickly after we scored; we'll look at that, we'll address that. How they scored; they scored off the power play, they scored off the rush. Things that we need to limit, and unfortunately we didn't do it to a high enough level tonight."
 
Tyler Gratton scored the overtime-winning goal at 2:55 of the extra fame, and Dylan Jackson contributed three tallies for a hat trick for the Sun Devils.
 
Junior Carter King scored twice on the man disadvantage for Denver and Miko Matikka had his first career multi-goal performance with two markers. Freshman Zeev Buium also found twine for the Pioneers, and his older brother, junior Shai Buium, registered a pair of assists.
 
King becomes just the fifth Pioneer to score multiple short-handed goals in the same game and the first to do so since Tyler Bozak on Nov. 4, 2007 versus Minnesota.
 
"It is just being aggressive," King said of the team's penalty kill, which went 1-for-3 and scored two goals of its own. "We've been trying to get on people as quick as we can and create turnovers and move it away right away."
 
DU held brief leads of 2-1, 3-2, 4-2 and 5-2 in the outing, but the Sun Devils quickly answered each time. ASU tied the game within three minutes every time the Pioneers had the lead, including scoring in less than 30 seconds twice.
 
Goaltender Freddie Halyk made his fourth consecutive start and made 19 saves, suffering his first career loss. Arizona State netminder T.J. Semptimphelter stopped 35 shots in the win.
 
UP NEXT: The Pioneers conclude their weekend series and season-opening stretch of playing seven of their first 10 games on the road on Saturday at 5 p.m. MT at Arizona State.
 

POSTGAME NOTES

• McKade Webster played in his 100th career NCAA game.
• Denver played its second overtime game of the season, dropping to 0-1-1 in the extra period.
• The Pioneers' six-game winning streak over the Sun Devils came to an end, and DU is now 8-2-1 all-time vs. ASU.
• Denver was playing its first game at Mullett Arena (opened fall 2022).
• Miko Matikka recorded his first career multi-goal game and stretched his point streak to three games.
• Zeev Buium is also on a three-game point streak (1g/2a).
• Carter King extended his career-long goal streak to four games and point streak to six games (6g/3a).
• Massimo Rizzo had his season-opening, eight-game point streak came to an end (5g/12), and Sean Behrens' career-best seven-game assist stretch also concluded (0g/10a).

GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
7:55 ASU (0-1) – PPG, Tyson Jackson scored in a scramble in front of the net.
18:14 DU (1-1) – SHG, DU forced a turnover and Carter King scored into wide open in the slot after taking a cross-feed from Garrett Brown.
 
2nd Period
5:45 DU (2-1) – Zeev Buium intercepted the puck in the neutral zone, skated into the offensive side and fired a wrist shot from the high slot.
6:49 ASU (2-2) – Dylan Jackson buried a shot for an unassisted goal.
16:44 DU (3-2) – SHG, After his initial chance was stopped, Carter King tapped in a cross pass from Rieger Lorenz .
17:05 ASU (3-3) – PPG, Dylan Jackson tallied with a shot from the slot.
 
3rd Period
1:55 DU (4-3) – PPG, Miko Matikka buried a one-time shot from the high right circle.
2:21 ASU (4-4) – Lukas Sillinger tallied during a scramble in the crease.
9:22 DU (5-4) – Miko Matikka scored into a wide open net after the puck came to him in the slot.
12:12 ASU (5-5) – Dylan Jackson completed the hat trick with a wrister from the slot.
 
Overtime
3:51 DU (5-6) – Tyler Gratton tallied with a wrister during a rush to end the game.
 

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