DENVER – Forwards Jack Devine and McKade Webster both had three-point nights and goaltender Freddie Halyk recorded his second shutout of the season on Friday in the No. 4 Denver Pioneers hockey team's 5-0 win over the Yale Bulldogs at Magness Arena.
 
Denver goes for the weekend sweep of Yale in the series finale on Saturday at 6 p.m. MT. The game will be broadcasted on NCHC.tv.
 
Webster scored and added two assists for a career-best three points, while Devine had a helper and tallied twice for his fifth multi-goal game of the season. Freshmen Miko Matikka and Zeev Buium also scored for the Pioneers.
 
Halyk stopped all 13 shots he faced and is on an 80:02 shutout streak. He also posted a clean sheet in his first career start on Oct. 28 against Air Force.
 
Denver finished with a 34-13 edge in shots, including outshooting Yale 8-1 in the first period and 12-4 in the second period.
 
"Especially after last week and weeks previous, we just want to get our goals against down," said Webster, the senior captain of the team. "Focused on a lot of defensive work this week, so it paid off tonight."
 
Matikka tallied for the sixth consecutive game when he opened the scoring off his own rebound with 3:27 remaining in the first period, and DU pushed its lead to 3-0 with markers from Devine and Buium in a matter of 2:30 midway through the second frame. Devine added his second of the night at 7:29 of the third and Webster scored his fourth of the season with 7:21 remaining after his outside shot deflected into the net off a Yale player's stick.
 
Bulldogs goaltender Jack Stark made 29 saves.
 
The Pioneers finished 1-for-6 on the power play and was a perfect 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.
 
UP NEXT: DU is halfway through its season-long six-game homestand. After wrapping up its series on Saturday with Yale, the Pioneers host rival and No. 1 North Dakota on Dec. 1-2 at Magness Arena.
 
 
POSTGAME NOTES

• Denver improved to 7-1-0 all-time vs. Yale and 5-1-0 at home in the series. The teams were meeting for the first time in nearly 11 years, as they last played on Nov. 23, 2012 in Denver.
• DU is 2-0 this year when wearing its gold third jerseys.
• The Pioneers played on Black Friday for the second consecutive season.
• Denver outshot Yale 8-1 in the first period, tying the fewest shots it had allowed in a frame this year. DU allowed just one shot in consecutive periods, as the Pios also let up just one shot in the third period last Sunday, Oct. 19, against Omaha.
• Head coach David Carle (125-56-14) won his 125th career game, tying his predecessor, Jim Montgomery, for fourth on DU's all-time wins list (125-57-26, 208 games).  Carle's current .677 winning percentage is presently the best in program history (Murray Armstrong, 1956-1977, .674; Jim Montgomery, 2013-2018, .663).
• Miko Matikka scored for the sixth straight game, the longest goal streak by a Pioneer since Dylan Gambrell went on a seven-game run from Feb. 13-March 5, 2016 (8g/14a).
• Jack Devine (2g/1a) picked up his fifth multi-goal game of the season.
• McKade Webster's three points (1g/2a)were a career high and his seventh multi-point game of his career.
• Zeev Buium stretched his career-best point streak to seven games (3g/7a), which is the longest by a DU freshman defenseman since Sean Behrens' seven-game run from Jan. 15-Feb. 5, 2022 (2g/9a).
• Tristan Broz is on a three-game point streak (0g/4a), matching a season long. His three-game assist streak ties a career high.
• Carter King had a career-high 17 faceoff wins, but his career-long nine-game point streak (7g/9a) ended—it was the longest of the season by a Denver player.
• Goaltender Paxton Geisel joined DU roster for the remainder of the season on Friday and served as the backup in the game

 
GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
16:33 DU (1-0) – Miko Matikka tallied off his own rebound at the left crease after his initial shot from the slot was stopped.
 
2nd Period
9:07 DU (2-0) – Jack Devine scored on a rebound in front off a shot by McKade Webster.
11:37 DU (3-0) – Zeev Buium hit twine with a backhand shot from the slot following a DU faceoff win.
 
3rd Period
7:29 DU (4-0) – PPG, Jack Devine finished a one-time snapshot from the left circle off a cross-pass by Massimo Rizzo.
12:39 DU (5-0) – McKade Webster's shot from the point deflected off a Yale player's stick in the slot and went top-shelf into the net.
 
 
QUOTABLES
Senior Captain McKade Webster
On the battles in front of the net: "One of our keys is winning the battle of the net-fronts, and that's our net, block out for Freddie, and then getting into their paint and try and bury home a greaser. But take their eyes away. Battle of the net-fronts is one of our keys."
 
On earning a shutout with only allowing 13 shots against: "It definitely helps out a lot. I'm sure (goaltender) Fred [Halyk] loves it. The less shots the better. It helps out, I mean when we have pressure on their guys, stop plays before it happens and we transition into offense right away, so you kind of saw that tonight."
 

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