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Instead, Harvard lost to Yale 4-3 and Princeton 3-0, the latter loss giving the Tigers their first series sweep of Harvard in six years. Yet, even though Harvard did not register a win in its third straight road weekend series (0-5-1 in its last six ECAC road games), the Crimson finished with as high a seed as possible...
Entering the weekend, Harvard was in jeopardy of finishing as low as seventh place in the ECAC. Though the Crimson got off to an 8-3-2 start in the conference, Harvard had struggled since the exam break, winning only two games since Jan. 12. Those two victories were at home against the only two teams in the ECAC not to make the playoffs, Vermont and Union...
...happened, the final standings placed Harvard in a three-way tie with Dartmouth and Rensselaer for third place in the ECAC with 23 total points. Brown, Colgate and Princeton finished in a three-way tie for sixth, just one point behind. Harvard is 1-0-1 against Dartmouth and 1-1 against RPI on the season. The Crimson thus received the tiebreaker over the Big Green. And because Harvard has a better record against the top five ECAC teams (the second tiebreaker after head-to-head record), the Crimson propels ahead of Rensselaer...
...good news does not stop with merely receiving home ice for Harvard. If Harvard wins its first-round series, it is guaranteed a spot in the ECAC semi-finals. If the Crimson had finished with any seed under three, it would have been forced to play a “play-in” game in Lake Placid. This is a one-game, do-or-die series where the loser goes home and the winner is forced to play Cornell, by far the best team in the ECAC, in the semis...
...wait! There’s more! Despite the fact that Harvard enters the postseason as arguably the most vulnerable of the 10 teams in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson could not have chosen a more favorable opponent than Brown. The Bears had won six games in a row entering this past weekend, riding the hot goaltending of sophomore Yann Danis. However, Brown lost 3-2 to Princeton and 5-3 to Yale, with Danis taking the loss in both...