COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - During the second period, UND goalie Zane McIntyre spotted a moth fluttering on the ice near the crease.

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He watched it for a while, waited for a whistle, then gently picked it up with his hand, skated over to the Colorado College bench and handed it to goalie Tyler Marble.

“He looked lonely sitting over there,” McIntyre said. “He looked like he could use a friend.”

Most likely.

Marble was pulled after allowing four goals in the first period and McIntyre had nothing better to do as his team thoroughly dominated Colorado College 7-2 on Saturday night, finishing off a two-game sweep of the Tigers in World Arena.

Senior Mark MacMillan led the charge offensively, capping a seven-point weekend with three goals and two assists. It was his first-career hat trick and the first five-point night for any UND player since Ryan Martens in 2008.

Defenseman Paul LaDue added two goals and two assists, while Michael Parks had three assists and blue liners Tucker Poolman and Jordan Schmaltz each potted goals.

In all, UND scored five times on the power play – four during two five-minute majors – and twice shorthanded as it improved to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in National Collegiate Hockey Conference play.

“We were ready to play coming out of the gates,” said UND coach Dave Hakstol, who passed Dean Blais for second all-time in wins at UND with 263. “We answered the bell every situation that came up and we did a good job for the second night on the road.”

World Arena had previously been a difficult place to play for UND. It had just one sweep in the last 15 years entering Saturday night’s series finale, but made it look like old hat against a Tiger team that skidded to a 7-24-6 mark last season and fired coach Scott Owens.

“We got outworked and outplayed in our own building and that should never happen,” first-year coach Mike Haviland said as his players held a team meeting.

UND, known for its slow starts, notched its first sweep in the month of October since 2010, while moving to 3-0 on the road for the first time since 2002, when Minnesota Wild star Zach Parise was a freshman.

“All the guys came to play from the drop of the puck,” McIntyre said. “You could tell that the first period with the way we came out and controlled the play. We played with a playoff mentality. I think that’s something the coaches stressed to us throughout the practice week. It’s so tough with the college schedule to win back-to-back nights and I think our team did an excellent job coming to play tonight.”

UND essentially put the game out of reach in the first period, scoring four times and building a huge lead.

MacMillan scored shorthanded at 5:50 of the opening frame, using a forehand-backhand move on the top of the crease to fool Marble and give UND a 1-0 lead. LaDue tacked on a power-play goal at 9:23, burying a MacMillan feed.

Then, things turned sour in a hurry for the 2-2 Tigers.

Forward Hunter Fejes, their lone goal-scorer on Friday night, was called for a checking from behind major and a game misconduct. On the ensuing power play, UND scored twice on point shots by Poolman (first-career goal) and Schmaltz.

“Coming into tonight’s game, we knew we had to have a huge first period,” LaDue said. “That’s exactly what we did. We put the pressure on them early, popped a few in and drew a few penalties, which is huge.”

After Cody Bradley scored to cut UND’s lead to 4-1 in the second period, it tacked on three more in the third. Two of them came after Tiger forward Christian Heil was called for hitting UND’s Drake Caggiula in the head. Caggiula left the game and no updates were available immediately after.

LaDue and MacMillan both scored on Heil’s major and MacMillan finished the hat trick with a shorthanded empty-netter at 13:45. The seven goals marked UND’s highest road output since beating Michigan Tech 11-2 in March of 2011.

As the team left the ice, the large contingent of UND fans saluted the team.

“The fans also gave me a little shout-out for picking up the moth,” McIntyre said.

Notes: UND wore its black jerseys for the first time this season. Colorado College also changed its jerseys. After wearing yellow in the series opener, the Tigers wore white on Saturday. . . UND made two lineup changes for the series finale. UND scratched defenseman Keaton Thompson and forward Bryn Chyzyk for Nick Mattson and Austin Poganski. The team also juggled two of the lines. . . The Tigers scratched Charlie Taft for Jordan Berger and mixed up three of four forward lines. . . UND forward Trevor Olson was given a major for charging in the third period.