It's still way early, but you can't help feeling that there might be something special about this Colorado College hockey team. 

Three games into their WCHA schedule, the Tigers remain undefeated in league play and are tied for first place after skating to a 4-1 victory over Michigan Tech on Friday at the World Arena.

Special teams were the difference as CC clicked on three of five power-play opportunites, held the Huskies scoreless on both of theirs, and iced the triumph with an empty-net goal with 2:06 left in the opener of their two-game series.

Senior left wing Bill Sweatt factored in on all four tallies, scoring the first one of the game and setting up the other three including the game winner by freshman Rylan Schwartz at 10:55 of the second period.

Colorado College, 3-1-1 overall, heads into Saturday's rematch with a 2-0-1 mark in WCHA play – the same as Minnesota Duluth and North Dakota.

Junior defenseman Ryan Lowery and freshman winger William Rapuzzi also scored, while freshman goalie Joe Howe made 33 saves to raise his record between the pipes to 3-0-1. The only shot to elude Howe came off the stick of Tech captain Malcolm Gwilliam, who completed a nice two-on-one rush with Brett Olson moments after Olson escaped from the penalty box midway through the second frame.

But just 30 seconds earlier, Schwartz had staked CC to a 2-0 lead during a five-on-three power play with both Olson and Mike VanWagner in the sin bin. 

Lowery, who added an assist in the victory to join Sweatt and junior forward Tyler Johnson with multiple-point nights, upped the count to 3-1 at 8:11 of the third frame, just seven seconds into another power play after Johnson won a faceoff in the Tech end got the puck to Sweatt. Lowery took Sweatt's pass near the blue line on the left side, skated through the slot and fired a wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle that beat MTU goalie Josh Robinson cleanly.  

Rapuzzi added the empty netter for the Tigers, who played again without senior forwards Mike Testwuide and Andreas Vlassopoulos.