BUFFALO, N.Y. – The No. 6 Plattsburgh State men's ice hockey team ran into a hot goalie on Saturday night in State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) action, falling, 4-1, to Buffalo State at the Buffalo State Ice Arena.
 
Plattsburgh State is ranked at No. 6 in the DCU/USCHO.com Men's Division III Top-15 Poll.
 
The Cardinals finished with a 53-20 edge in shots on goal, but Buffalo State's junior goaltender Emil Norrman made 52 stops to lead the Bengals to victory. Plattsburgh State was 1-for-2 on the power play, while Buffalo State was 1-for-4.
 
While the Cardinals tied the game at 1-all with a power-play goal with 4:33 left in the third period, the Bengals answered back with a power-play marker of their own less than two minutes later. Buffalo State scored two empty-net goals to put the game on ice.
 
Plattsburgh State falls to 16-5-2 overall (10-3-1 SUNYAC) with the loss and will look to avenge one of its three conference losses so far this year on Friday, Feb. 10, as the Cardinals host SUNY Potsdam at 7 p.m. in their regular-season home finale on Senior Night. Buffalo State rises to 13-8-0 overall (8-4-0 SUNYAC) with the win and next visits SUNY Geneseo on Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.
 
After a scoreless first period, Buffalo State netted the first goal of the game with 49.2 seconds left in the second. Junior forward Nikita Kozyrev passed to junior defenseman Parker Allison on the left point, and Allison fed junior forward Nick Stuckless in the left circle. Stuckless skated to the bottom of the circle before scoring on a wrist shot glove side.
 
Plattsburgh State continued to dominate possession, and the Cardinals finally broke through at 15:27 of the third, as senior forward Mitchell Hale (Oakfield, N.Y./Johnstown Tomahawks) scored on the power play. Senior defenseman Jacob Modry (Albany, N.Y./Merrimack College) took a shot from the left point that was saved, and after Norrman denied first-year forward Colin Callanan's (Stony Point, N.Y./New York Apple Core) attempt to poke in the rebound, Hale lifted the puck over Norrman's back and into the back of the net to tie the game at 1-all.
 
Sophomore forward Joe Glamos put the Bengals ahead for good with a power-play goal that came with 2:44 remaining in regulation. Senior defenseman Hayden Ford passed to sophomore forward Michael McCosh from the right point down to the bottom of the left circle, and McCosh backhanded a pass to Glamos in the slot. Glamos then ripped a one-time shot high glove side to deliver the eventual game winner.
 
Both McCosh and graduate student forward Andrew Logar scored empty-net goals in the final minute of play to add insurance for the home team.
 
First-year goaltender Eli Shiller (Toronto, Ontario/Wellington Dukes) made 16 saves in the loss for the Cardinals.