SAINT PETER, Minn. - Trailing 3-1 in third period Friday night, the Gustavus men's hockey team scored five goals in every way possible to upset fifth-ranked UW-Stevens Point 6-4 at Don Roberts Ice Rink. Gustavus improves to 2-0-1 while the Pointers drop to 1-1-0. 

Stevens Point started strong early, scoring a pair of goals in the first nine minutes of the game. Connor Mahony got the Gusties on the board late in the first with a breakaway goal to make it 2-1 at the first intermission. 

The Pointers regained a two-goal advantage midway through the second and the score remained 3-1 after 40 minutes of play. Down but not out, Nate Stone gave the Gusties life with a goal at the 6:33 mark, on a feed from Drew Holt. Stevens Point once again made it a two-goal game with a power play goal two minutes later, but the Gusties' never-say-die attitude proved fruitful in the final nine minutes of the game. 

Playing shorthanded at the 11:38 mark, Nate Stone found Grant Ellings with a backhand pass on a breakaway for the score to cut the deficit to one. Four minutes later and on a 5-on-3 power play, Artem Korolev and Wilmer Svensson cycled the puck to Mahony for his second goal of the game to tie it up. 

With time winding down, it appeared the game was headed to overtime but Jackson Hjelle made a point-blank save with Jack Suchy on the rebound. Suchy then fed the puck to Hunter Newhouse who went the distance and dished it back to Suchy in front of the net for what proved to be the game-winning goal with 1:02 left in regulation. Stone then put the icing on the cake with an empty net goal in the final 35 seconds on a feed from Ellings. 

The Gusties outshot the Pointers 37-23 as Hjelle made 19 saves for the win - a handful of which in key moments to keep the game close. 

Gustavus hosts No. 10 UW-Eau Claire at 7 p.m. Saturday. 
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