Plattsburgh State's Bennett Stockdale (15) with the close-up shot on Albertus Magnus Logan Bateman (30) as they crashed the net. It would be the finals of the 2024 Comfort Inn Winter Classic and it would see the host #5 Plattsburgh State Cardinals take on the Albertus Magnus Falcons for a shot at the title in front of 1,300 fans at the Ronald B Stafford Ice Arena. The game would remain scoreless through most of the first period when Colin Callahan would score at the 13:09 mark to make it a 1-0 Cardinals game. The Falcons would answer right back about 84 seconds later on the Sam Anderson powerplay goal and tie the game at one. However, the tie would be short-lived as the Cardinals would regain the one-goal lead 1:07 later on Colin Callahan's second goal of the period. The Cardinals would extend their lead to 3-1 just 1:26 into the second period on the Luk Jirousek goal. The Cardinals would extend their lead to 4-1 on the Afam Tretowicz goal at the 14:16 mark of the second period. The game would stay there till the 6:31 mark of the third period on the Thomas Maia goal and make it a 5-1 game. The Falcons would keep fighting and they would make a 5-2 game at the 11:12 mark of the period on Sam Anderson's second goal of the game. The Raiders would get one more late in the game from JJ Berdal. However, the Plattsburgh State Cardinals would get the 5-3 win to be crowned the 2024 Winter Classic champion behind Eli Shiller's 16-save performance. Next up for the Cardinals is a home tilt on January 12th against Middlebury. Gallery

Albertus Magnus Sam Witt (7) with the hard hit behind the net on Plattsburgh State's Bennett Stockdale (15) sending him to the boards. Gallery

Albertus Magnus Harley Michaels (5) with the hard hit on Nazareth's Harrison Dumas (21). It would be the opening game of the 2024 edition of the Comfort Inn Winter Classic and it would see the Albertus Magnus Falcons face off against the Nazareth Golden Flyers of the United Collegiate Hockey Conference in front of 700 fans. The Falcons would get the opening goal in the battle of the birds from Tim Manning just 3:57 into the game. The Falcons would keep the pedal down and take the 2-0 lead at the 10:08 mark of the first on the Sam Anderson goal. Then with just about 3:30 left in the period, Blake Frost would get the Flyers on the board and make it a 2-1 game. However, the Falcons would get the two-goal right back to a two-goal game with a 3-1 lead just 90 seconds later on the Caden Patterson goal. The Falcons would come out firing in the second period and score just 12 seconds into the game on the Tyler Ignazzitto to make it 4-1. The game would stay there till the midway point of the third when the Flyers Johnny Jackson goal to make it 4-2 down the stretch. In the winning effort for the Falcons Logan Bateman would make 28 saves as they get the 4-2 win. With the win, the Albertus Magnus will play the winner of the Plattsburgh State Cardinals and the Rivier Raiders while the Nazareth Golden Flyers get the loser in the consolation game. Gallerya

Nazareth's Anthony Quinlivan crashes the rebound and puts the goal away. Gallery

Albertus Magnus Logan Bateman (30) with one of his 29 saves on the night that he sends to the corner. It would be game two of the W.B. Mason Winter Classic and it would feature the Albertus Magnus Falcons and the King's Monarchs. It would be a tight evenly matched game through the first as there would be no scoring. The first goal of the game would not come until the 11:36 mark of the second period when Tyler Ignazzitto would light the lamp for the Falcons and make it a 1-0 game. Then with just about two minutes left in the period, the Falcons would strike again this time on the powerplay from Colt Corpse for a 2-0 game. Then when the teams came back for the third period the Falcons would go for the knockout as they would score just a minute into the period to make it 3-0. Although the Monarchs would show some life as Mahingan Decontie would score at the 5:26 mark of the third to make it 3-1. The Monarchs would keep fighting and make it a 3-2 game at the 9:17 mark of the third period on a powerplay goal by Jack Cooper. Then with just under five minutes left in the game, the Monarchs would complete the comeback and tie at three on the Nick Snyder. That is where the game would stay until the overtime and in that overtime, Alex Gagnon would get his second of the night and it was an important one as it would be the game-winner. In the winning effort, Logan Bateman would make 29 saves as they go to 9-6 on the season while the Monarchs fall to 2-10 on the season. Gallery

King's Jakub Viedemann (81) with the hip check on Albertus Magnus Dino Antoniadis (23) that sends him into the boards. Gallery

Albertus Mangus' Coleton Cianci with the goal as he breaks in on net with the two on one advantage. The game would start off slow as these evenly matched teams would feel each other out and there would be no scoring in the first period. In the second period, the home Cardinals would get the opening goal at the 3:18 mark from Paul Bryer for the 1-0 lead. Although the lead would be short-lived as the Falcons would tie the game at one just over 90 seconds later on the Coleton Cianci goal. Then with just over five minutes left in the period, the Falcons would take the lead 2-1 on the Tim Manning goal. Although with 51 seconds left in the second period Adam Trentowicz would score on the powerplay to tie the game two. The Cardinals would take the lead back just 90 seconds into the third period on Paul Bryer's second goal of the game to make it 3-2. The third period would start off good for the visiting Falcons as they would get two powerplay goals and an even-strength goal 115 seconds apart from Gagnon, Sam Anderson (twice) to take the 5-3 lead. Then just over the halfway mark of the third period Thomas Maia would score for the Cardinals to make it a 5-4 game. Although with just under 90 seconds left in the game the Falcons would take the 6-4 lead and win on the empty netter by Ryan Colwell. In the losing effort, Anthony Del Tuffo would make 21 saves as the Cardinals fall to 7-5-2 on the season. Next up for the Cardinal will be a matchup on January 9th against Kings while Albertus Mangus will play Kings on January 8th. Gallery.

Plattsburgh State's Thomas Maia (3) with the hard hit in the corner on Albertus Mangus defender in the corner. Gallery