Trying to remove a node from an XML document but it removes children only

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VB

XML

This a piece of my XML file

<Player>
<Name>John Rooks</Name>
<TeleNo>
</TeleNo>
</Player>
</Players>
I am trying to remove the bit in bold, using this code when curComboItem = " John Rooks"

nsmgr = New XmlNamespaceManager(myPlayersDOM.NameTable)
Dim PlayerNameList As System.Xml.XmlNodeList =          myPlayersDOM.GetElementsByTagName("Player")
For Each node As Xml.XmlNode In PlayerNameList
    xmlName = node.SelectSingleNode("Name", nsmgr)
    nodeName = xmlName.InnerText
    If nodeName = curComboItem Then
        node.RemoveAll()
        myPlayersDOM.Save("D:\My Documents on D\Visual Studio Projects\Match Management Application\Players.xml")
        Exit For
    End If
Next node

What I get is this

<Player>
</Player>
</Players>
Which ultimately results in a null exception.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong??