Mission impossible suddenly doesn't seem so far-fetched. Now that Colorado College knows how it feels to win again, bigger and better things could be on the horizon as playoff time approaches.

Freshman winger Hunter Fejes' second goal of the contest, with 10.5 seconds left in overtime, gave the Tigers a wild 6-5 victory over No. 8-ranked University of Denver at a jam-packed World Arena on Saturday that extended CC's undefeated streak to a season-best five games.

After three consecutive ties on the road, in a season filled with frustration, this one was long overdue.

Fejes notched the second of four unanswered CC goals in the second period that wiped out an early 2-0 Denver lead, only to see the pesky Pioneers rally from a 5-2 deficit in the third to force the extra session. His unassisted game winner came less than 12 ticks after DU goaltender Juho Olinuora squeezed the pads to rob him on a tip-in attempt from the low slot.        

“After I just missed putting it through his legs, I looked up at the clock and saw that there were 22.6 seconds left,” Fejes said. “I thought to myself, 'We can't let this happen again – we can't lose this game.' I saw them rip the puck around the boards behind the net, and when it got to their guy I lifted his stick and took it away. I moved to my backhand, turned into an opening in the slot and took a shot that went in off the post. I just got lucky.”

The Tigers, 2-0-3 during their current streak, improved to 11-14-5 overall and 8-10-4 in WCHA play. They leap-frogged past Minnesota Duluth into eighth place in the league standings, five points behind three teams – including Denver – that are tied for fifth with six games remaining in the regular season. The Pioneers dropped to 15-9-5 overall and 10-7-5 in the WCHA.
 
Fejes also assisted on senior defenseman Joe Marciano's go-ahead tally at 13:43 of the middle stanza for a three-point night. Junior left wing Alexander Krushelnyski, whose red lighter at 13:55 of the third put Colorado College up 5-2, and senior defenseman Mike Boivin each contributed a goal and an assist in the triumph. Senior right wing and team captain William Rapuzzi set up the first goal by Fejes, as well as Marciano's just 3:59 later.  

For the 20th time in 30 games, CC saw its opponent score first. Junior center Nick Shore, the team's leading scorer, staked the visitors to a 1-0 lead at 4:54 of the opening period, beating senior netminder Joe Howe on the glove side from high in the left faceoff circle after Olkinuora made a big stop on Charlie Taft at the other end.
 
Ty Loney added a power-play goal at 11:16 and DU went to the locker room at the first intermission up 2-0.

Archie Skalbeck ignited the comeback at 3:32 into the middle stanza, cutting across the slot after picking up a feed from Boivin along the right boards and firing a rising wrist shot against the grain that found the far corner of the net just under the crossbar.

Fejes tied it up at 9:44 when he one-timed Rapuzzi's pass out of the corner while charging past a Denver defender toward the goalmouth. Sophomore defenseman Ian Young also collected an assist on the tally as a member of Colorado College's injury-riddled blue-line factored in on each of the team's first five goals.

Defensemen Joey LaLeggia (1g,1a) and David Makowski (2a) each recorded a pair of points for DU.