EDMONTON – Trailing 2-0 with less than four minutes to play, the Golden Bears scored twice in 51 seconds to tie the game, before Sean Tschigerl scores eight seconds into overtime to give Alberta a 3-2 win. 

Tschigerl finished off a cross-ice feed from Marc Lajoie, scoring his conference-leading eighth goal of the season. Through six weeks of conference play, the top three rookies in scoring are all Bears; Tschigerl (18 points), Brett Hyland (13) and Lajoie (12). 

Alberta's Josh Prokop scored with 3:07 left to pull Alberta within one before Jakin Smallwood tipped Mason Ward's point shot past Carson Ironside less than a minute later to force overtime.

Just eight seconds into the extra session, a lost draw put the Griffins on the back foot and Lajoie fed Tschigerl, who had all day to pick a spot under the bar on Ironside and deliver a heartbreaking result for MacEwan.

With the result, Alberta is now 9-1-0, atop the Canada West East Division standings, while MacEwan is 4-5-1, in third place.

The Griffins gained a 2-0 lead in the contest on a pair of first-period goals by Carter Chorney.

At 12:16 of the opening frame, rookie Ethan Sundar lugged the puck up from his own end, swung wide around a defender and crossed it back in to Chorney, who beat his man and beat Tyler Palmer back door.

The duo went back at it again at 18:36 when Sundar fed a streaking Chorney, who fended off his D-man again and tucked it between Palmer's legs.

The second period show belonged to Ironside, who made two spectacular one-timer saves late in the frame, including robbing Aidan de la Gorgendiere with 1:34 left before stopping Smallwood in tight right before the horn.

It was a terrific response for Ironside, who finished with 30 saves a night after being pulled after allowing four goals in just over 12 minutes at Clare Drake Arena. Palmer stopped 20 of 22 for Alberta in the win.