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...report from Cappy Jones's sports information office was bubbling "Yale's hockey team enters the 1969-70 season with two definite goals in mind and in reach." it said. "A winning campaign and a spot in the eight-team ECAC Division 1 post-season playoffs...
...come back from New Haven last March with a strong sense of needless humiliation. There is not one Harvard player who does not realize that a loss to Yale, either tonight at New Haven or next Saturday in Boston, eliminates the Crimson from consideration for home ice in the ECAC playoffs. And if Harvard does not know that tonight's game means the whole season for Yale, it has learned nothing from what happened last March. And it deserves to lose if it travels to New Haven with the same degree of smugness that it displayed last year...
...Next week, the ECAC seeding committee will select eight Division One squads that it feels have merited playoff spots by past record and strength of schedule. The top four teams will have the privilege of playing the opening round on their own home ice-a privilege that Harvard seemed to have little hope of gaining last week...
...losses to both Clarkson and St. Lawrence last weekend, and the trouncing it received Wednesday night, have knocked Boston College from second place in the ECAC's jumbled standings to fifth. and even conceding the Eagles a victory at Army this Saturday, their best possible record will...
...Harvard, on the other hand, defeats Princeton next Wednesday, and takes both games with Yale, the Crimson's final ECAC record will stand at 14-6. and will assure Harvard of fourth place and home ice. And if the Crimson kicks away any of its last three games, it does not deserve a place in the top four anyway...