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Those items will be in abundance this weekend, when No. 5 Harvard hosts upset-minded Clarkson in the best-of-three opening-round series of the ECAC tournament...
Entering play last Friday, the third-place Colgate men’s hockey team would have been delighted to learn that No. 11 Harvard, just one point ahead in second in the ECAC, would wrap up its weekend road trip with only a loss and a tie to show for its pair of overtime efforts...
...Crimson’s stumbles will, in practice, mean little to either the Raiders or Harvard, both of whom now face virtually identical paths to Albany, provided that at least three of the tournament’s first-round favorites hold serve in their respective home rinks. The ECAC playoffs do not, like many more familiar post-season championships, employ a bracket in which teams are assigned an initial seed that determines their course to the final game, regardless of upsets...
...We’re going to keep working hard, and obviously, we’ve got to take care of the ECAC tournament,” Crimson captain Noah Welch said Saturday. “But we know what the overall picture’s all about, and guys are confident...
Instead, the ECAC rewards its top regular-season performers by re-seeding after each round of play, matching the top seed with the lowest remaining one and thereby ensuring that the No. 1 team—this year Cornell—has the smoothest road to a potential title. Should the majority of opening-round winners be culled from seeds five through eight, the Crimson and Colgate will both, because of that pairing method, face sub-.500 opponents separated by one to three points at season?...