Jimmy Snuggerud had three goals and an assist and Rhett Pitlick scored twice and collected an assist to lead 12^th-ranked Minnesota past No. 17 Colorado College, 6-2, Monday night at 3M Arena.
 
Sam Rinzel added three assists and Justen Close made 28 saves for the Gophers, who snapped CC's road winning streak of five games, its longest since the 2010-11 season.
 
Team captain Logan Will opened the scoring just 1:20 into the contest. He fired a shot from the top of the slot that caromed off the back board right to back to him and he placed a backhander over the shoulder of Close.
 
Charlie Strobel tied the game at the 3:22 mark of the opening frame with a wrister from the left circle that beat CC goalie Kaidan Mbereko just inside the far post.
 
It appeared the Tigers took a 2-1 lead late in the period when Gleb Veremyev put in a shot from the slot on the power play, but Minnesota challenged the play for offside and the call on the ice was overturned. Less than a minute later, Will fired a shot off the pipe and it was 1-1 at the first intermission.
 
Snuggerud, who scored twice on Sunday, put a pair on the board in the second period Monday to give the Gophers a 3-1 lead. He made it 2-1 just 19 seconds into the middle frame by completing a 2-on-1 pass from Pitlick, then fired a wrister past Mbereko from the top of the right circle at the 8:07 mark.
 
Ryan Beck closed the gap to 3-2 with a wrister from the top of the left circle at 5:28 of the third off an assist from Will, and Veremyev clanged a shot off the pipe 20 seconds later that would have tied the game, but Pitlick scored at 8:34 and 10:05 and Snuggerud completed his hat trick at 11:43 of the final frame.
 
Will and Beck each collected a goal and an assist for the Tigers (10-7-1).
 
Minnesota (10-6-4) attempted 44 shots, the second-most allowed by the Tigers this season, while CC had 30. Mbereko had 29 saves before giving way to Henry Wilder for the final 8:17. Wilder finished with nine saves.
 
The Tigers will stay in Minnesota for the rest of the week in advance of resuming NCHC play at Minnesota Duluth, Jan. 12-13, at Amsoil Arena.