Bret Link scored a career-high two goals and Kaidan Mbereko had 33 saves to lead the 20^th-ranked Colorado College Tigers to a 6-4 victory over ninth-ranked Minnesota Sunday night in Minneapolis.
 
Noah Laba added a goal and an assist, while Logan Will collected two helpers as the Tigers improved to 10-6-1 and have produced three consecutive road wins over Top 10 teams.
 
Minnesota opened the scoring at the 3:41 mark of the second period when Jimmy Snuggerud, fresh off winning a gold medal with Team USA at the World Junior Championships, took a pass from goalie Justen Close, went coast-to-coast and fired a wrister from the top of the slot past Mbereko.
 
The Tigers roared back with three unanswered goals in the second period. Link evened the score at the 4:45 mark when he flipped the puck from the left side of the net over Close's shoulder for his second goal of the season.
 
Gleb Veremyev put the Tigers ahead for good with his eighth goal of the season at the 9:20 mark. He started a rush in the defensive zone, got the puck back at the top of the left circle and buried a wrister past Close.
 
Tyer Coffey made it 3-1 with 3:15 remaining in the middle frame with a power-play goal. He took a pass from Nicklas Andrews and went top shelf from the top of the right circle.
 
After combining for four goals in the second period, each team put three on the board in the third. John Middelstadt scored from the right circle to cut the lead to 3-2 at the 7:12 mark, but Link put in his second of the game and made it 4-2 when he flipped a shot over Close's shoulder after a save off a shot by Connor Mayer.
 
That two-goal advantage only lasted 37 seconds as Snuggerud notched his second of the contest and it was 4-3.
 
Zachharya Wisdom took advantage of a turnover in the Minnesota offensive end and converted a breakaway with 2:34 remaining, but the Gophers' Brody Lamb scored 17 seconds later and it was 5-4 with 2:17 remaining.
 
Following Lamb's goal, the Tigers held the puck in the Minnesota zone for a full minute, and Close could not leave the ice for an extra skater until there were just 58 seconds remaining.
 
Noah Laba sealed the game with an empty-net goal with eight second remaining to give the Tigers their third straight road victory over a Top 10 team.
 
Minnesota outshot the Tigers, 37-29, and Snuggerud led all players with six. Wisdom posted a team-high five shots for CC, which scored on its only power-play opportunity and killed off all three of Minnesota's chances.
 
The teams will battle again on Monday, Jan. 8, beginning at 6 p.m. (MT).