VANCOUVER – The UBC Thunderbirds and Thompson Rivers WolfPack played out a goalless draw at Thunderbird Stadium on Saturday night to bring an end to their Canada West season as both teams now look ahead to the playoffs which get underway next weekend.
 
Jackson Gardner made a pair of saves in the contest and recorded his seventh shutout of the season in the process. Gardner now has 16 shutouts in his WolfPack career, by far the most in school history. The product of Chilliwack is also currently on his second three-game shutout streak of the season.

The match saw both teams struggle to carve out too many clear cut goalscoring opportunities against resolute backlines, with TRU recording their fourth scoreless draw in their last five matches, in a contest that had a cagey playoff feel to it at times.
 
Both teams saw efforts crash off the woodwork in the opening 10 minutes. Alesandro Comita cracked one of the right post for TRU seven minutes in, but UBC responded with a Logan Chung shot that grazed the crossbar two minutes later.
 
Comita brought out a save from Whyte in the 34th minute, before Markus Kaiser brought the half to an end with a fierce 25 yarder that Gardner stopped.
 
The second half continued in much the same vein, with neither side able to dominate.
 
UBC sub Nkoghe nearly won it for his side with six minutes remaining with a fierce shot that Gardner tipped after great trickery from Tommy Gardner to set the chance up.
 
Focus now moves onto the postseason for both teams. 

The WolfPack will play the waiting game as they watch scoreboards around the league tomorrow that will determine their playoff fate. The squad will either finish third in the Pacific Division and travel to a Prairie Division team for their quarter-final or finish second and host a playoff game next Friday night inside Hillside Stadium.