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...ECAC hockey playoffs are once again upon us, and the seeding pattern really hasn't changed significantly from that of 1971. Only Brown is missing from last year's final eight, three of the top four teams last March earned home-ice advantage again, and four teams have drawn the same opponents they faced in the 1971 quarterfinals...
First, let it be established that almost nothing of consequence was to be decided by the game in the first place. Yale was already mired in sixth place in the Ivy standings, and had long ago been eliminated from contention for an ECAC playoff berth. Harvard had already sewn up third seed in the playoffs three days earlier, regardless of the outcome of the Yale game, and had lost its chance for a share of the Ivy title when Cornell shut out Brown, 8-0, Saturday afternoon...
Yale's slumping hockey team, with no more to lose than it had last Saturday at New Haven, faces ECAC-bound Harvard tonight at Boston Arena in the final regular season game for both. Last week, at Ingalls Rink, the two squads played almost a period and a half of good, clean hockey. Tonight, one can consider himself lucky if he sees that much...
...Harvard-Yale rivalry, stems specifically from the quality, or lack thereof, of the Bulldogs' performance this winter. With ten lettermen returning, and a group of fine sophomores from a 17-2 freshman team that beat Harvard twice last year, Yale was understandably optimistic last November. A position among the ECAC's top eight was not entirely unrealistic, nor was a respectable finish in the Ivy League...
Yale still his nowhere to go, no matter what the outcome of tonight's game. Harvard, with the third seed in the ECAC playoffs sewed up after its 3-2 victory at Brown Wednesday, still has a chance at a share of the Ivy title, but it depends upon Cornell losing to Brown at Ithaca tonight. Essentially, the game has little bearing on anything of consequence, and that is precisely what makes the situation so volatile...