Plattsburgh State Cardinals Kyle Kudroch (20) with the shot on the net coming in on the breakaway. For the championship of the Cardinal Classic, it was a battle of the top 5 schools as The Plattsburgh State Cardinals took on the Castleton State Spartans. This would be a very rough game right from the drop of the puck. The game would remain scoreless until the 11-minute mark of the second period when the Spartans take the 1-0. Then with 3 minutes remaining in the period, the Cardinal tied the game up on Kyle Taylor's goal. The game would stay tied until Jake Mooney scores the game-winner with 4 minutes left in the game to give the Cardinals the Cardinal Classic title. In the winning effort, Matthieu Cadieux stops 20 of 21 shots as the Cardinals improve to 8-2-3 on the season. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Jake Mooney battles for the puck in the corner along the boards. Jake Mooney would get the eventual game-winner. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Kyle Taylor (8) rifles the shot on net as he comes down on the breakaway. The Plattsburgh State Cardinals would host the Babson Beavers in the 1st round of the Cardinal Classic. The game would remain scoreless until the 2 minute mark of the second period when Alex Brenton scores. The just 4 minutes later Kyle Taylor scores to make it 2-0. Then to end the period the Jensen brothers would each get one to make it 4-0 after the second period. Then in the third period, Matt McCleod would put the icing on for the 5-0 win. In the winning effort Mathieu Cadieux and John Leis would combine to stop all 28. The Cardinals improve to 7-2-3 on the season. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Michael Cassidy (26) battles for the puck in the corner. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Jordan Caldwell (27) takes it around the corner and avoids the trip by the Amherst Lady Jeffs defender. The #4 Plattsburgh Cardinals would host #7 Amherst Lady Jeffs in the Cardinals/Panthers Classic. The game would be scoreless through the first period. Then early in the second period the Lady Jeffs would take 1-0 lead and would add another one later in the period to the 2-0 lead heading into the final period. The Lady Jeffs would take the 3-0 lead early in the 3rd period. Then Cardinals would start there come back getting two goals within 2 minutes with still 8 minutes left on the clock. The comeback would come up a goal short on this day though and they would lose 3-2 With the lose the Cardinals fall to 5-1-1 on the season. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinal's Vick Schleuter (7) celebrates as he puts the puck in the net on the breakaway. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Vick Schueleter (7) with the hard hit along the boards on the Oswego State defender. #6 Plattsburgh State Cardinals would host the #2 Oswego State Lakers in the battle for first place in the SUNYAC's. Oswego would open up the scoring 6 minutes into the first. The Cardinals would answer back to tie the game at 1. in the second minutes of the 2nd period on the Paul Puglisi goal. Oswego would reassume the lead 5 minutes later. Then just 90 seconds later Alex Jensen would tie the game up for good. As there would nothing decided on this night as the Cardinals and Lakers would tie at 2. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Mathieu Cadieux (34) drops down and gets the save with the pads. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Vick Schlueter (7) battles his way through the defender and gets to the loose puck. The Plattsburgh would defeat the Geneseo State Ice Knights 2-0 to finish off the weekend sweep. In the winning effort, Matt MacLeod and Vick Schlueter get the goals and Mathieu Cadieux stops all 23 shots for the shutout. The Cardinals improve there record to 5-1 on the season. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Mathieu Cadieux (23) blocks off the bottom of the net with the pad to make the save. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Ryan Farnan (44) tries to stuff it in on the short side of the net for the goal. Although he would get a hat trick in the game. The #6 Plattsburgh State Cardinals would host the Brockport State Golden Eagles for the home opener of the season. The Cardinals would make easy work of the Golden Eagles gaining the 5-1 victory. In the winning effort Ryan Frannan would get a hat trick scoring all three goals in the second period. Gallery

Plattsburgh State Cardinals Alex Jensen (15) pins his defender along the broad and battles for the puck. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Ryan Craig (11) comes sliding across on the breakout and aims for the bottom corner on the short side. In a game that would be rough and tumble throughout the Cardinals would come up on the short end of the stick losing 3-2 in overtime. Norwich would get the opening goal to take a 1-0 lead after the first. Then in the 2nd period, the Cardinals would tie it up at 1. Then just a few minutes later the Cadets would take the lead back 2-1 lead. Then in the final minute of the 2nd period, the Cardinals would tie the game back up at 2. That is where the game would stay until the Cadets got the game-winner with 2 minutes remaining in overtime on a very questionable power play. With the loss the Cardinals season would come to end in the NCAA Quarterfinals with a final record of 20-8-1. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Kyle Kudroch (20) fights through the check along the broads to get the free puck. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Ryan Franan (44) banging at the loose puck in front of the goaltender going for the rebound goal. The Cardinals would have a 2-0 lead after the first period on goals by Eric Satim and Cody Adams (Game Winning Goal). The Cardinals would strike for two more in the 2nd period to increase there lead to 4-0 after two periods on goals by Ryan Franan and Dylan Clarke. Fredonia State would break up shut out late in the third period to finishing off the scoring. With the win, the Plattsburgh State Cardinals have earned a spot at the NCAA Tournament and will wait to see who their opponent will be. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Eric Satim (12) ends up on the worse end of the open ice hit at the blue line. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Patrick Jobb (9) with the hard in the boards to gain the puck back. After jumping out to a 2-0 lead the Cardinals would need a late 3rd-period goal to send the game to overtime. Then in the overtime period with 8 minutes remaining Jason Docking would send the home crowd home happy with the game-winner of a rebound. With the win Cardinals will head to Geneseo this weekend to take on #2 Geneseo Ice Knights in the SUNYAC semi-finals. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Vick Schlueter (7) gets up ended crossing across in front of the net in his attempt to score. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Ryan Farnan (44) picks up rebounded puck and slides it under the Potsdam goalie or the goal. The Plattsburgh State Cardinals would get the convincing 9-2 victory over there north country rival the Potsdam Bears. Although they needed to wait until games were over Saturday to find out there fate in the SUNYAC playoffs. When the dust settled they will be hosting Morrisville State on February 23rd in the first round of the playoffs. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Nick Jensen (14) turns the corner and slices by the Potsdam State defender. Gallery