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With apologies to the NFL in the last three weeks of the football season, here is a glimpse of the ECAC's playoff probabilities...
...Colgate (12-7-1), Vermont (12-7-1): The Big Red has already captured home ice, even if it loses both games to RPI and Vermont. Colgate and UVM face off Friday noght in Burlington, Vt., and the winner will have the the inside track for the final playoff spot. Both teams, however, will probably face each other in the ECAC quarterfinals...
Clarkson (9-8-3): The Golden Knights can nab the sixth playoff spot if they sweep Harvard and Dartmouth. If Clrakson splits, and Princeton does the same, it will still be in sixth place. But a pair of losses, coupled with two Tiger wins, will bring Clarkson down to the seventh playoff spot...
...sweep over Yale and Brown can put the Tigers in sixth place if Clarkson loses both games. If RPI wins both its games, a Princeton split will create a tie with the Engineers, and two Tiger losses will send Princeton down to the eighth and final playoff spot...
...example is any lesson, converting a regular-season title into a post-season title is as about as easy as catching a shark in a sewer. Regular-season greatness does not always yield playoff punch...