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...before you can reserve your subway fare, balcony seat, cup of beer and pizza slice at the Garden. Harvard, seeded on top, has to escape Clarkson, the eighth seed, in Watson Rink tonight as the ECAC tournament quarterfinals get underway at four different collegiate ice palaces. Across the river second seed Boston University hosts seventh-seeded Brown, and up north third-seeded Vermont entertains sixth-seed Providence, while fourth-seeded Cornell invites fifth-seeded New Hampshire into the makepit known as Lynah Rink...
...victors of the regional skirmishes move into the Garden Friday night and pair off for the semifinals. The two squads that survive that contest meet in the finals Saturday evening at the same place, with the winner becoming an automatic choice to represent the East in St. Louis. The ECAC selection committee then chooses a second team, not necessarily the runner-up in the tourney, to head west...
...that time of year again. ECAC playoff time, when all the marbles are up for grabs. Even for a team like Harvard, which made mincemeat of its Eastern opponents en route to the number one ECAC ranking, all that really counts is how well it does in the post season playoffs...
...Crimson's sterling 19-1 ECAC and 12-0 Ivy League records will all go for nought, and be reduced to an, "At least we were number one for the season" memory, if Harvard loses tonight's quarterfinal match against Clarkson...
...paper then, Harvard rates a clear advantage over a Clarkson team that has been mediocre all season. Clarkson's overall record is 14-16-1, and its 9-9-1 ECAC mark earned it the eighth spot in the ECAC playoffs. The Golden Knights just barely edged out Northeastern for the final playoff berth by virtue of a narrow 6-4 victory over Vermont Saturday night...