Kael Mouillierat finally broke out of his goal-scoring slump Saturday night. The only thing that would have made him happier was if the goal had been a game-winner.

Instead, the Minnesota State men’s hockey team came away from Magness Arena with a 4-4 overtime tie with No. 2-ranked Denver and just one point for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings.

“I thought we deserved a little better than one point,” said Mouillierat, whose power-play goal midway through the third period gave the Mavericks a 4-3 lead. “But I’ll take it. Points are hard to come by on the road. I’m definitely happy with the way we played. This was the first week we put in two solid efforts in a row.”

Mouillierat, who had 17 goals last season, had been scoreless through the Mavericks’ first seven games. On his goal, he tipped a Ben Youds shot behind goaltender Adam Murray (30 saves). Youds finished the game with three assists.

“That was big for Kael and big for our team, too,” Mavericks coach Troy Jutting said.

As tough as it’s been for Mouillierat to find the back of the net, it came easy for Denver’s Kyle Ostrow, who tied the game with 5:03 to play.

He simply followed the bouncing puck.

After teammate John Lee fired a shot on MSU goalie Kevin Murdock, Ostrow might have been the only player on the ice to see the deflected puck hanging 15 feet in the air. Before it hit the ice, he slapped it into the goal.

In overtime, each team had a power play, with the Mavericks outshooting the Pioneers 6-1. Rylan Galiardi nearly won the game with a short-handed rush in the closing seconds but Murray was able to get ahold of the bouncing puck.

“I think we got better this weekend again,” said Jutting, whose team lost 4-3 in Friday’s opener. “I think we’ve played three pretty good hockey games in a row now, and I think we’re getting better as a hockey team.”

On Saturday, the Mavericks got a 40-save performance from Murdock and scored three power-play goals.

Freshman forward Tyler Pitlick scored his first two goals as a Maverick on the eve of his 18th birthday, and sophomore defenseman Joe Schiller scored his first collegiate goal.

“We shot the puck a little more often, something we stressed hard today,” Jutting said of the Mavericks 3-for-6 performance with the man advantage. “You have to shoot the puck to score.”

The Mavericks opened up a 2-0 lead with first-period goals by Schiller and Pitlick.

Schiller fired in a slap shot from the high slot after Adam Mueller’s low-angle shot hit the post and caromed out to the point where Schiller was skating alone. Midway through the period, Pitlick made some nifty moves during a power play and ripped a wrist shot past Murray.