The Michigan hockey team once again dominated the final minutes of its game Saturday night.

Eventually, that could be a tremendous trait. This weekend, it helped the Wolverines twice pull away from a scrappy Bentley team.

One night after scoring three goals in the final five minutes of a 5-1 win, Michigan scored twice in the final 2:11 to wrap up a 4-1 victory in front of 5,204 fans at Yost Ice Arena.

"We've been conditioning pretty hard all spring and summer and I think right now it's just the fatigue factor,” sophomore forward Luke Moffatt said. “We were able to wear down the other team and by the third period, they just can't keep up with us."

Freshman forward Phil Di Giuseppe scored two goals before the late flurry, including the game-winner midway through the second period.

A.J. Treais scored a power play goal at the 17:49 mark of the third period to put Michigan (3-0-0) ahead 3-1 and Alex Guptill added an empty-net goal in the final minute to extend the Wolverines’ home winning streak to a program-best 16 games.

Michigan controlled play from the start, outshooting Bentley (0-2-0) by a 16-4 margin in the first period and taking a 1-0 lead on Di Giuseppe’s first goal midway through the period.

Di Giuseppe then followed a second-period goal by Bentley’s Jared Rickford with another of his own to give Michigan a 2-1 lead at the second intermission.

Michigan coach Red Berenson called the sweep of Bentley “a good weekend overall.”

“(Bentley) gave us everything that we could handle and these games were both literally 2-1 games right into late in the third period,” Berenson said. “I'm just pleased that we kept the goals against down. That was the bottom line, because the puck was not going in at the other end easily.”

Michigan finished with a 43-22 shots advantage. Goaltender Shawn Hunwick made 10 of his 21 saves in the second period.