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Although yesterday's semi-final washout against the inhospitable Elis left the Crimson (now 4-5 against Ivy competition and 12-13 overall) looking a bit out of breath, Harvard surprised almost everyone by topping the Bruins on Saturday and qualifying for today's third-place playoff...
...they're not out of it mathematically, but the Harvard hockey team's 3-2 loss to Colgate Sunday night just about silences the playoff talk floating around the Bright Center. The situation that seemed so promising a week ago now looks like this: a 6-9-2 record and a tie for tenth place in the ECAC with Boston University. Technically, the icemen are ahead of B.U. because they won this year's regular-season meeting, but after the eighth spot it doesn't matter much anyway...
Sunday night's win moved Colgate (8-8-1) into a tie for seventh place in the standings with Cornell (9-9), as five teams continue to battle for the remaining two playoff spots. The Red Raiders face only one winning team the rest of the way when they meet Vermont at home March 8 in their finale. Otherwise, it's Northeastern and New Hampshire before a friendly crowd, and only Princeton away--probably the easiest card of any contender...
...Harvard men's hockey team went into this weekend with good chances for making the ECAC playoffs. After Saturday afternoon's 6-6 overtime tie with Yale at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum and last night's disheartening 3-2 loss to Colgate at Bright Center, the Crimson's ECAC record dropped to 6-9-2 (7-13-2 overall), which leaves them behind both Colgate and Cornell for the final playoff spot...
...NOTEBOOK: The win put Cornell in the eighth and final playoff spot for the time being, and dropped Harvard to ninth place in the ECAC. But the icemen can get right back into the race this weekend, when they travel to Yale Saturday and then face Colgate at home...