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...that time of year again. ECAC playoff time, when all the marbles are up for grabs. Even for a team like Harvard, which made mincemeat of its Eastern opponents en route to the number one ECAC ranking, all that really counts is how well it does in the post season playoffs...
...rated Harvard icemen will face number eight seed Clarkson in the first round of the Division One playoff on Tuesday. The ECAC selection committee picked Clarkson yesterday on the basis of its 6-4 victory over Vermont on Saturday...
...have to be crazy to be a goalie," says Parent, "but it helps." If so, Parent must be crazier than most. For the past two years, he has been the best goal tender in hockey. Last year Parent all but carried the Flyers to the playoffs. He appeared in 73 of their 78 games, led the league in shutouts (twelve), and had the lowest goals-against average per game (1.89). In the playoffs he shut down the high-scoring offenses of New York and Boston, and helped the Flyers to make hockey history by becoming the first expansion team...
...players often give Dave Schultz, who has more strength than skill, a wide berth wherever he skates. More often than not, it is a Flyer who comes out of a corner melee with the puck. But do the Flyers dish out cheap shots and unnecessary brutality? In the final playoff game against the New York Rangers last spring, the Flyers helped themselves to victory when Schultz sent Ranger Defenseman Dale Rolfe to the dressing room with two gashes in the forehead. Toward the end of a recent road game against the Minnesota North Stars, which the Flyers lost badly, repeated...
...shocker in overtime. Before that, the Penn sextet stunned a heavily-favored squad from the University of New Hampshire, 6-4, and nailed St. Lawrence by a 6-3 count. But since the Cornell victory, three losses in four league games have severely damaged Quaker hopes for an ECAC playoff berth...