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PINE VALLEY, N.Y. -- Nazareth suffered a heart-breaking loss to host Elmira in an ECAC West hockey game on Saturday evening. The Soaring Eagles scored a power play goal with .7 remaining in regulation to edge the Golden Flyers. Sophomore Scott Andler and freshman Chris Murray tallied Nazareth's goals.

With the loss, the Golden Flyers drop to 1-6-1 overall and 0-6-1 in conference games. With the victory, the Soaring Eagles improve to 5-4 overall and 4-2 in ECAC West games. It was Elmira's third consecutive victory.

With two minutes left in the third period, Nazareth freshman Geoff Bagnall was whistled for holding, which put the nation's fourth-ranked power play unit on the ice for the final minutes of regulation. The Golden Flyers' penalty kill lines held the Soaring Eagles off until the final second of regulation when Michael Collins scored the game-winning goal. Carter Shinkaruk and Jesper Strale had the assists. After controlling the puck at the blue line with about 10 seconds to play, Strale dumped the puck down to Shinkaruk. Shinkaruk then passed to Collins, who was on the left side of the net. Collins carried the puck in front of the net and wristed an on-goal shot, which was deflected by a Nazareth defender and past sophomore goalie Ed Zdolshek. It was Collins' third goal of the season. Zdolshek made two saves earlier in the power play to initially thwart Elmira's man advantage.

For the second time in two nights, Nazareth opened the scoring with a first-period goal. Andler tallied his second goal of the season 7:08 into the period. Sophomore Sean de Herder and junior Tom Missert had the assists. It was the first point of the season for both de Herder and Missert. Zdolshek made seven saves in the first 20 minutes to keep Elmira off the board.

Elmira's first and second goals were scored in a span of 20 seconds roughly seven minutes into the second period. Josh Burnell tallied his team-leading sixth goal of the season to tie the score, which was on a power play, then Alexander Taulien gave the Soaring Eagles the lead 7:18 into the stanza. Jarryd ten Vaanholt and Eric David assisted on Burnell's goal. Burnell's five power play goals ties him for the nation's lead in that category. Joe Gagne and Dylan Herold were credited with the assists on Taulien's breakaway goal.

With 35 seconds remaining in the second period, Murray converted a power play opportunity with his team-leading fourth goal of the season. Freshman Ben Blasko and sophomore Scott Dawson had the assists. Blasko leads the Golden Flyers with nine points on three goals and six assists.

Zdolshek finished with 28 saves, including 12 in the third period. Elmira's Sal Magliocco recorded 29 saves, including 22 between the second and third periods. Sophomore Jon-Paul Durso finished with eight shots for the Golden Flyers, followed by Murray with five and junior Julius Tamasy with four. The teams finished with 31 shots apiece. The Soaring Eagles had a 28-26 edge in faceoffs won. Blasko won eight of 14 faceoffs, sophomore Packy Jones won six of 10 faceoffs, and Andler won nine of 21 faceoffs.

The Golden Flyers travel to Adrian, Michigan to play the U.S. National U-18 team on November 30th before playing Adrian in a non-conference game on December 1st. Nazareth also plays a non-conference game at Cortland on December 12th before hosting Geneseo in a non-conference game at Frontier Field on December 15th.