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While the women dominated their opponents since the beginning of November, the men struggled all year before finally pulling together during the past two weeks in the ECAC Tournament. The same thing happened two seasons ago, when Harvard won the ECAC Championship after finishing its regular season with a 2-8-1 record. The men’s team was seeded sixth in the tournament this year and third in 2002, although Harvard was one regular season loss away from a No. 8 seed two years...
...men’s hockey team can finish dead last in the regular season and still make the playoffs. That’s right, in the ECAC, every team makes the conference tournament. All 12. The squad could go 0-29 in the regular season and have a shot at winning the conference. Heck, they could play blindfolded for 29 regular season games and still win the national championship...
...easy way out. Winning a two-week tournament should not trump four months of games. And yet, in college hockey and basketball (except the Ivy League), the regular season is deemed meaningless. At-large bids help, but only for the big schools. In men’s hockey, the ECAC received just one bid this year—and it belongs to Harvard...
...Colgate. The joke’s on you. Winning the regular season was just an exhibition. The real regular season is the ECAC Tournament...
...remaining, the Crimson had earned a faceoff in the Clarkson zone, just moments after surviving one at its own end, securing one more chance for a shot at what had been all-but-guaranteed by many before the season’s start—the Whitelaw Trophy as ECAC champions...