The men's hockey team won its third-straight game with an impressive 6-2 win over visiting Rochester tonight. Six different Saints found the back of the net in the victory. The win improves the Saints' record to 5-8 on the year and 1-6 in WHAC play. 

The Saints got off to a fast-start, scoring a power-play goal just 2:41 into the action in the first-period to take a 1-0 lead. It was Kyle Truax scoring his third of the season on a rip from the point, assisted by Mason Stewart. Aquinas would double their lead with a goal early in the second-period, this one just 20 seconds into the stanza. Nick Long ripped a shot after grabbing a loose puck off of a Warrior miscue and ripped a shot that got a piece of the Warrior goalie and the crossbar. Brandon Rozema found the puck loose at the doorstep and put it home for a 2-0 Saint lead.

The Warriors would seem to be energized after falling behind by a pair of goals, as they quickly took over play for the next few minutes and tied things up just like that. Less than a minute after Rozema's goal, his team-leading eighth, the Warriors cut into the Saints lead with a breakaway goal. Only a minute and a half after that, the Warriors knotted things up at 2-2 with a power-play goal. Despite the ice heavily tilted towards the Warrior net the rest of the second-period, the two teams remained tied until Darren Johnson sniped a shot over the goalies left shoulder with just under three minutes left in the second. Johnson's goal, assisted by Connor Barta, gave the Saints a 3-2 lead that they would never relinquish.

The third-period was all Saints, scoring twice in the first five minutes of action and three times overall to blow open the game. Alex Klekotka netted his sixth goal of the season on a beautiful solo play from behind the net, brushing off a Warrior defender and beating the Warrior goaltender in one move. Trent Kulczyk made it 5-2 with a tough angle shot from the right side of the net for his third of the season, assist to Darren Johnson. And Brandon Schwandt would cap the scoring for AQ with a short-handed goal at the 15:16 mark in the period with Brandon Rozema on the assist. 

Aquinas outshot the Warriors 64-28 on the day. They connected on 1-4 powerplay opportunities, while allowing just one goal in four shorthanded attempts and adding a shorthanded goal. Nick Ottenbacher, fresh off a WHAC Defensive Player of the Week honor, was the winning goalie for the Saints, stopping 26 shots in net.

The Saints and Warriors will be back at it tomorrow afternoon, this time at Rochester at 1:15 pm.