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...With playoff seeding and possible home ice advantage on the line, the Harvard men’s hockey team wraps up its regular season this weekend as it heads to New Haven and Princeton for a showdown with two of its Ivy League rivals...
Before any thoughts of postseason, however, must come a tough game against the Elis in New Haven tonight. Yale (8-17-2, 7-11-2), despite its poor record, is still in the running for a playoff spot, awarded to the top ten teams in the league. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Harvard-Yale series has historically been dominated by the home team—even Harvard’s 1989 national championship team lost in New Haven...
...loss dropped Union (12-12-6, 7-10-3) into ninth place in the ECAC and put the Skating Dutchmen in danger of missing the playoffs with only one weekend series remaining to play. The Crimson’s victory left it in control of its own playoff destiny with regard to home ice, pending the results of next weekend’s season ending road trip to Yale and Princeton...
...Crimson can hang onto one of the top five playoff seeds, it will host a playoff series at Bright Hockey Center. And Harvard certainly hopes that one of its leading scorers—sophomore forward Tyler Kolarik—can recover from a broken thumb sustained in the first period of the RPI loss in time to aid the Crimson’s final surge to the ECAC tournament...
...We’re going to miss Tyler,” Fried said. “We’ll be fighting this battle for him. Hopefully he’ll be back for the playoff stretch...