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With a 6-3 win Saturday afternoon against No. 2 Dartmouth—which stands at No. 1 in the PairWise Rankings and has only lost to No. 1 Minnesota—Harvard has once again jumped back into contention not only for the ECAC crown, but also the NCAA championship...
Harvard would have been five points behind in the ECAC standings, possibly dropping to ninth in the national rankings, and facing a must-win situation in the ECAC playoffs where the pressure would have been incredible. It would have lost all the momentum the team had built after the break for exams, and, most importantly, be looking ahead to a possible first round of the Frozen Eight against any one of a number of teams that had already beaten Harvard...
Instead, it seems like everything is coming up Crimson now. With the Beanpot, games against St. Lawrence and Dartmouth, and, most importantly, the ECAC playoffs still on the schedule, Harvard may even be able to claw back up into the top four and secure a home game for the first round of the playoffs...
Believe it or not, Union once stood atop the ECAC leaderboard...
...ECAC currently features three of the top four goaltenders in the country, according to two measures of backstopping prowess. Brown freshman Adam D’Alba and Harvard senior Dov Grumet-Morris are tied for first in the country in save percentage and third and fourth, respectively, in goals-against average (GAA). Cornell’s David McKee is tied for first in GAA, and ranks fourth in save percentage...Were the NCAA tournament to start today, three ECAC teams—Cornell, Harvard and Colgate—would qualify, according to the latest Pairwise Ranking, a projection that mirrors...