Nothing dirty about this dozen.

Showing no rust from the summer off, the Grand Canyon University D1 Men's Hockey team set a high bar for its offense in its season opener, posting a new team record for goals in a single game in its 12-1 victory over San Diego State University Friday night. The Lopes didn't let up much in the series finale Saturday, pitching an 8-0 shutout over the Aztecs at Kroc Center Ice in San Diego, California. It's only the fourth time in the program's Division 1 era that the Lopes have scored 10 goals or more in a single contest, and the dozen goals scored Friday breaks the previous record of 11 set last October – also over SDSU. It's the third consecutive year that the Lopes have won the first two regular season games to open the season and the second straight campaign that GCU has won its first two games in Western Collegiate Hockey League play.

Friday: GCU 12, San Diego State 1

If Lopes' Head Coach Danny Roy was looking for offensive consistency, he found it from the opening puck drop on. The Lopes managed 15 shots on goal in the first period alone and only increased the number with each period. Roy's returners led the way in finding the back of the net most of the night, with Owen Hanson, Nash Jacobsma and Gabe Tritschler giving the Lopes a 3-0 edge by the end of the first frame – with fellow returner Caden Henrikson providing assists on two of the three scores. Any thoughts of an Aztec comeback after they scored their lone goal of the game four minutes into the second period were quickly doused by the Lopes' response, with Triston Tabucol and newcomer Michael Schwartz both scoring within the next three minutes. Schwartz, Jacobsma and Hanson all added another goal before the end of the period, and the rout was on. Hanson registered his first career "hat trick" when he scored his third goal of the night early into the final period, and Tabucol joined Schwartz and Jacobsma at the two-goal plateau with the Lopes' final goal of the game with six minutes left. The one-sided score allowed Roy to give starting goalie Dmytro Kubrytskyi the third period off after saving eight of nine shots in the first two periods, and Jacob DeMoranville promptly came in to stop all five third-period shots he saw. The Lopes outshot SDSU, 53-14.

Saturday: GCU 8, San Diego State 0

It's inevitable when Game 1 is that lopsided that the second matchup will be closer, and it was… somewhat. The shooting stats were just about identical, since the Lopes owned another slanted 51-18 advantage in shots on goal, and Hanson picked up where he left off Friday by getting GCU on the board first with 11:41 left in the first period. This time, though, the Lopes weren't as successful in the first 40 minutes, cashing in just three of their 33 shots fired at SDSU netminder Brody Hsiao, with first-year Lopes Thomas Kayner and Evan Leden scoring their first college goals ever to give GCU a 3-0 edge heading to the second intermission. Then the floodgates opened, and the Lopes exploded with four goals in the first nine minutes of the final frame, capped off by Hanson's shorthanded goal on assists from Gavin Uckele and Micahlind Pelletier. Hanson, Leden and Schwartz each scored twice to pace a balanced GCU attack; Pelletier, Jacobsma and Tritschler had a pair of assists each; and the goalie combo of DeMoranville and newcomer Hunter Hein took care of the opposite end of the rink with nine saves apiece.

The Lopes look to carry that momentum to this weekend's home opener against their archrivals from across town, Arizona State University. The Lopes will shoot for their ninth consecutive home win over the Sun Devils in a non-conference matchup Saturday, September 27, with puck drop at AZ Ice Arcadia scheduled for 7:05PM.