Nazareth's Matt Sayles makes the pad save from seat on Rivier's Jon Tavella breakaway attempt as part of a 16 save night. It would be the third-place game of the Comfort Inn Winter Classic and it would see the Nazareth Golden Flyers of the UCHC Hockey taking on the Rivier Raiders in front of 700 fans at the Ronald B Stafford Ice Arena. It would take no take for the Raiders to get the opening goal of the game just 1:20 into the game on the powerplay goal from Tyler Duderstadt to make it 1-0. Nazareth would answer about three minutes later on the shorthanded goal from Blake Frost to tie the game at one. The Golden Flyers would keep the pedal down and would score two minutes later on the Ethan Louisos goal and take the 2-1 lead. Then at the 11:56 mark, the Golden Flyers would extend their lead to two on the Logan Tobias powerplay goal to make it a 3-1 game. The game would stay there till the 6:33 mark of the second period when the Golden Flyers would extend the lead to 4-1 on the Anthony Quinlivan powerplay goal. Then at the 12:30 mark of the second period the Raiders would get two powerplay goals just 47 seconds apart from Tyler Duderstadt and Jon Tavella to make it a 4-3 game at the end of the second period. The game would stay there till the 8:30 mark of the third period when Blake Frost would score the second time in the game and make it a 5-3 game. The Raiders would add a goal with 1:10 left from Damon Kiyawasew to make it 5-4 but the Golden Flyers would hold on for the win. With the win the Golden Flyers go to 2-8-2 on the season as Matt Sayles makes 16 saves. As for the Rivier Raiders, Will Augustine would make 36 saves as they fall to 6-7-2 on the season. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Brannon Butler with the goal about halfway through the third for the 3-1 lead. It would be the second game of the Comfort Inn Complex Winter Classic and it would see the Rivier Raiders taking on the host #5 Plattsburgh State Cardinals in front of 1300 fans in Cardinal County. The Cardinals would waste no time as they would get the quick 1-0 lead just 18 seconds into the game on the Colin Callanan goal. The game would stay there till the 9:47 mark of the period when the Raiders would tie the game on the powerplay on their first shot of the game from Cormac Hayes. The Cardinals would have an answer though and retake the lead at 2-1 about 3:30 later Simon Singher's first NCAA goal made it 2-1 Cardinals. The game would stay there through the second period as there was no scoring. The Cardinals would fight and get the two-goal lead on the goal by Brannon Butler goal to take the 3-1 lead at the 8:04 mark. In the closing stages of the period the Cardinals would at the empty netter on the Ryan Butler goal to secure the 4-1 win. In the winning effort, Eli Shiller would make 18 saves as the Cardinals go to 11-2 on the season and will play the Albertus Magnus for the Cardinal Classic title tomorrow. The Rivier Raiders go to 6-6-2 on the season and will get the Nazareth Golden Flyers in the consolation game. Gallery

Plattsburgh State's Luk Jiroisek (29) with the stuff in the short side as he goes by for the goal. It would be a non-conference matchup as the Plattsburgh State Cardinals would host the brand new Riviers Raiders at the Fieldhouse on a senior night. The game would start off good for the home Cardinals as they would get the opening goal at the 9:41 mark of the first period on the Christian Difelice for the 1-0 lead. Although the Raiders would fight the rest of the period and get the equalizer with four minutes left in the period from Tyler Duderstadt. The tie would be short-lived as the Cardinals regained the lead at 2-1 on the Carson Gallagher goal with 1:17 left in the period. As the second period would get underway the Raiders would actually fight and take the lead to the Milan Breczko powerplay goal. The tie would be short-lived as the Cardinals would take the lead back at 3-2 on the Jacob Modry goal 30 seconds later. The Raiders would keep fighting and tie the game again with just under five minutes left on the Jon Tavella goal/ The game would stay there until the 8:54 mark of the third period when the Raiders would get their first lead of the game on the Ryan Nolte goal at 4-4. Although the Cardinals would fight all the way to the last horn and get the tying goal with 12 seconds left on the Carson Gallaghers second of the game to force overtime. In that overtime period, the Cardinals would send the faithful home happy as Luk Jirousek would light the lamp 1:38 into the overtime for the 5-4 win. In the winning effort, the Cardinals go to 9-5-3 while the Raiders fall to 4-9-2. Gallery