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...schedule with a 0-2-1 record in league play, the No. 11 Harvard men’s hockey team (18-7-2, 15-4-1) can—with wins this weekend at Dartmouth and Vermont—secure at least a No. 2 seed in the ECAC playoffs, capture its first Ivy title since 2000, and shore up its claim for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament...
...exactly the same stakes as when the Crimson last lost a conference matchup—against Colgate on Jan. 7—nine ECAC wins...
Entering play this evening, the Crimson trails No. 2 Cornell (20-4-3, 16-2-2) in the races for both the Ancient Eight and ECAC regular-season titles, with the Big Red all but assured of capturing the latter. Only an unlikely zero-point weekend for Cornell at St. Lawrence and Clarkson, both of whom Harvard downed last weekend, combined with a pair of Crimson wins would deny the Big Red its third Cleary Cup in four years...
After tomorrow night, Harvard will likely not face another team under consideration until the ECAC semifinals, while several of the tournament hopefuls with which the Crimson is jockeying for positioning, particularly those in Hockey East and the WCHA, will see their fair share prior to the end of their regular and post-seasons...
...four years I’ve been here it’s always been one of the biggest games of the year, the biggest in the ECAC,” senior defenseman Ashley Banfield said. “It usually gets a lot of fans and we play pretty close games, hard fought and clean games––quality hockey...