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...pressure is all on New Hampshire, the number two seed and host to Harvard in tonight's contest at Snively Arena (8 p.m., WMEX radio, Ch. 11 T.V.) in Durham. UNH raced through the regular season ECAC schedule compiling an impressive 24-6 record and looks like a sure bet to make it to Boston Garden for the semifinals Friday...
Harvard, sporting an unimpressive 12-8-3 league record, would be a little more than a practice session for the Wildcats if it weren't for one thing, the much-publicized ECAC curse that hangs over the UNH hockey program...
That curse has resulted in six losses in the last seven ECAC quarterfinal contests and is seemingly all that Harvard has going for it tonight. It goes a long way toward explaining why Petro last week expressed the opinion that, given the choice of playing UNH, Boston University, Cornell, Clarkson or Brown, his teammates would most like to play the Wildcats...
...they weren't going too fast. The Harvard Band will be there, as will a chartered busload of Pi Eta members and several cases of beer, but the response hasn't been over-whelming. Harvard fans aren't used to having to go further than Watson for the ECAC quarterfinal...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY--BOSTON COLLEGE: This has been a hard-fought and bitter rivalry throughout the season, and the eighth ranked Eagles feel they have a good shot at knocking off the top-seeded Terriers. But the Terrier bite is as bad as its bark, and B.U. rarely loses ECAC playoff games...