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...Detroit Red Wings, battling for a playoff berth, upset the Boston Bruins last night, 6-3. Detroit, in fifth place in the NHL Eastern Division, is now only one point behind the Toronto Maple Leafs...
Providence, which sneaked into the eighth playoff spot only because of Boston College's loss at Pennsylvania Saturday, is a scrappy squad, though, and could make a surprisingly close game of it. Still, one has to go with Cornell because of its recent record, the tremendous advantage of Lynah Rink, and general ECAC tradition. The eighth team just doesn't beat the first, at least not at Ithaca, CORNELL...
First, let it be established that almost nothing of consequence was to be decided by the game in the first place. Yale was already mired in sixth place in the Ivy standings, and had long ago been eliminated from contention for an ECAC playoff berth. Harvard had already sewn up third seed in the playoffs three days earlier, regardless of the outcome of the Yale game, and had lost its chance for a share of the Ivy title when Cornell shut out Brown, 8-0, Saturday afternoon...
...potentially volatile situation to begin with. Yale, smarting from five consecutive losses and a 5-1 defeat at Ingalls Rink a week earlier, had nothing to lose. Harvard, biding its time until the playoff game with Clarkson on Tuesday, could not afford a brawl...
...Crimson had had reason to expect, the Bulldogs were out for blood. A 9-12 season had already eliminated them from the Ivy race, and from consideration for an ECAC playoff berth next month. A victory over Harvard was all Yale had to look forward to, and when it became apparent midway through the game that it was not forthcoming, the contest rapidly disintegrated into a game of shinny...