GUELPH, Ont. – On Thursday night (Feb. 5), the University of Guelph men's hockey team came through with an important 3-1 home win over the TMU Bold on the 9th edition of the annual 'Aggies Night' game presented by Syngenta Inc. A crowd of 1,016 in the Gryphon Centre Arena saw Dylan Hudon scoring the breakthrough goal midway through the 3rd period to put Guelph ahead 2-1 before Griffin Wilson iced the game with an empty net goal with 0.2 ticks left on the clock to seal the team's 14th win of the season. 
 
The Gryphons could not have asked for a better to start to the 9th edition of 'Aggies Night' as Cole Craft set up Ethan Doyle on a 2-on-1, as Doyle fired home the game's opening goal just :49 seconds into the game to put Guelph in front. TMU later in the period would tie it up on a goal from William Portokalis. The game would remain tied at 1-1 until the midway point of the 3rd period. With a delayed penalty call on TMU, Nolan Dann got the Gryphons out on the rush and found Dylan Hudon in the middle of ice. Hudon's pass attempt was blocked, but the second-year forward then roofed one into the top shelf of the net to give Guelph the 2-1 lead. Griffin Wilson would clinch the 3-1 win on Aggies Night with an empty netter with 0.2 seconds left in the game to cap off his team's 14th win of the season. The Gryphs got a phenomenal performance in net from Olivier Ciarlo, who stopped 31 of his 32 shots faced for his 10th win of the season. With the win, the Gryphons improve to 14-8-3 on the regular season and move into a tie of 4th place of the OUA West Division standings with 31 points as they inch closer towards a spot in the OUA playoffs with three games remaining. Meanwhile, TMU drop to 16-9-0 on the season and remain in 3rd place in the OUA West with 32 points.
 
The Gryphons have three games remaining in their regular season as they wrap up the road portion of the schedule on Saturday night (Feb. 7) when they visit the York Lions (5-17-2).