Connor Roulette's first U SPORTS goal lifted the Huskies to a 5-4 OT win over the TWU Spartans on Oct. 17. Photo courtesy: Huskie Athletics/Rachel Albertson

By Ryan Flaherty

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Huskies set regular season shots record in win over Spartans

Oct 18, 2025 | 2:01 AM

The Huskies men’s hockey team recorded its highest regular season shot total in program history and needed every last one to pull out a 5-4 overtime victory over the Trinity Western Spartans in Langley, B.C., on Friday.

Saskatchewan outshot Trinity Western 73-26 but it took a sudden-death goal by Connor Roulette to clinch the win after the Spartans erased a three-goal deficit to send the game to an extra frame.

The Huskies were well-rested after a bye week and they burst out of the gates, peppering Spartans goaltender Raphael Audet with 28 shots in the opening period. They got on the board less than three-and-a-half minutes in with Carter Stebbings netting his third goal of the season on the game’s first power play, and doubled their advantage at the 8:49 mark on Chantz Petruic’s first of the year.

“We looked fresh, I thought we had lots of energy early. I thought our first period was really good, (we) could have been up a few more. Their goaltender just played really well,” Huskies head coach Brandin Cote said.

Petruic tallied his second goal of the night on another Huskies power play 2:37 into the second period as it began to look like the visitors would run away with the contest, but the Spartans got a spark thanks to an unassisted shorthanded marker by Christian Lowe a few minutes later.

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Dawson Holt restored the three-goal lead with his second of the season at 11:25 but just ten seconds later, the Spartans answered back with another unassisted effort, this time by Damiano Metastasio. Saskatchewan held a 4-2 lead and a 53-16 edge in shots after two periods.

However, the Spartans refused to back down and played their best hockey of the night in the third. Mikhailo Simchuk buried a power play goal to pull TWU within one just shy of the nine-minute mark. Then late in regulation, with Audet on the bench for an extra attacker, Matteo Lamoureux deposited a rebound past Huskies goaltender Jordan Kooy to level the score at four.

But Saskatchewan avoided the upset loss thanks to Roulette, who took the puck down the left flank on a two-on-one rush and dragged it inside before snapping a shot past Audet for his first career U SPORTS goal.

“I’m just trying to get used to the league, trying to find my spot, trying to find my place and getting the first one out of the way, it’s actually kind of funny, I think the last eight years of my life I’ve always scored in my third game, so I’m keeping that streak alive,” the first-year forward said.

Roulette wasn’t the only Huskie to record a milestone in the victory, as Petruic added to his two-goal night with an assist on Holt’s marker for his 100th career point in conference play.

“It means a lot. Looking back on my career here, I had some injury trouble in my first year or two,” the fifth-year forward said. “Gotta give credit to my linemates, as cliché as it is, but Dawson Holt and Liam Keeler, a bunch of guys I’ve played with throughout the years, but Holt for sure, I’ve kind of stuck with him for five years and we’ve got some really good chemistry.”

Despite the heavy shot discrepancy and the final result, the Huskies head coach said his team still has plenty of room for improvement.

“I thought that when we got up, complacency set in a little bit and we kinda let them back in. They didn’t give up so give them credit, they compete hard and we knew they would,” Cote said. “We don’t necessarily have everybody pulling on the same end of the rope as much as we’d want yet so we’ve gotta get that going in the right direction but you can’t complain about the effort.”

The Dogs finished the night 2-for-7 on the man advantage, while the Spartans scored once on two power play chances. Kooy earned his second win of the season, making 22 saves. Audet was named the game’s first star after making an eye-popping 68 stops in defeat. Saskatchewan’s 73 shots on goal are second only in program history to the 81 they fired at the Calgary Dinos net in a 4-3 double overtime playoff win on Feb. 26, 2016.

Saskatchewan’s record now stands at 2-1 while the Spartans are 0-4-1. The teams will meet again on Saturday at 7 p.m. PT (8 p.m. in Saskatchewan). Fans can hear the game live on the free HuskieFAN app.

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