How to use Java Pattern to get string between two lines

Wanted to get the String between two lines like below.

<td class="name">Creation date:</td>
<td>2014-11-24<span class=comment> (59 day(s) ago)</span></td>

I need to get the "2014-11-24" from above two lines.

Below is the Sample code.

public String find_cdate(String line)
    throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
 {
try
{
  String date = "";

  String pattern = "<td class=name>Creation date:</td>.*?<span class=comment>";
  Pattern patt = Pattern.compile(pattern, Pattern.DOTALL);


  int counter = 0;


  Matcher m = patt.matcher(line);
  while (m.find())
  {
    counter++;
    int start = m.start(0);
    int end = m.end(0);

    String s = line.substring(start, end);
    String[] rs = s.split("<.*?>");
    for (int i = 0; i < rs.length; i++)
    {
      date = date + rs[i];
      date = date.trim();
    }
    date = date.substring(14).trim();
  }
  System.out.println("\nCdate:" + date);
  return date;
}
catch (Exception e) {}
return "";
} 

This is not working as it looks like regex i used is not correct. Can you please help me how i can create a regex to get the data b/w above two lines.

Thanks in advance for the help.