MONTREAL -- Goaltender Louis-Philippe Guindon of St. Joseph du Lac, Que., turned away 38 of 40 shots leading No.5 ranked McGill to an impressive 6-2 home-ice victory over the UQTR Patriotes in OUA men's hockey, Friday, as the Redmen celebrated their annual Homecoming game.

It was McGill's second straight victory over the Pats and the sixth in their last eight meetings with their bitter rivals, improving McGill's lifetime record to 87-159-17 in 263 meetings overall since the series began in 1969.

The Redmen, who received goal production from five different players, led 2-0 after the opening frame and 3-0 after two, then outscored the Pats 3-2 in the final period.

Scoring for the home side was Keanu Yamamoto and Christophe Lalonde in the first, Guillaume Gauthier with the winner at 3:19 of the second, Antoine Dufort-Plante, Quinn Syrydiuk and defenceman Nikolas Brouillard in the final period.

UQTR, which was hemmed in their zone for much of the first two periods, finally broke loose in the third to outshoot McGill 22-8 en route to a 40-26 advantage in the game. But they could not solve Guindon, the 6-foot-1, 183-pound kinesiology junior, who lost a bid for a shutout when defenceman Loik Leveille found the back of the net with a power-play marker at 40 seconds of the third period. Leveille set up another goal five minutes later when Olivier Caouette narrowed the gap to 3-2.

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REDMEN RAP: A plethora of team members from the past six decades were in town this weekend to celebrate the Friends of McGill Hockey alumni Homecoming. Among those on hand were: Mike Richards, Len McDougall, Mike Hayes, Herb Madill, David Urquhart, Mario DeBenedictis, Brent Bannerman, Paul Barber, Doug Harrison, Kelly Nobes, Neil Blunden, Nathan Chiarlitti, Ken Covo, Dan Gubiani, John Harris, Liam Heelis, Jan Kaminsky, Francois Lemay, Jay McMullan, Mike Nelson, Mathieu Poitras, Alexandre Tremblay and Michael Wells, plus coaches Chris Laperle, Jean St-Pierre,  Mike Cucinotta and recently retired Earl Hawke, who served two decades as the team's equipment manager.

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