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...Bottom-of-the-barrel Brown hadn’t won two games in a row all season. On top of that, no 12th-seeded team had ever toppled a fifth-seed in ECAC playoff history, and the Crimson hadn’t lost a home playoff series in 14 years...
...Bears goaltender Mike Clemente made a career-high 47 saves in the second game of the Bank of America ECAC Tournament last Saturday night, giving Brown a 2-0 victory and ending the Crimson’s season in the biggest upset of the weekend...
...were never able to get that injection of excitement or enthusiasm that we get when we score,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “We battled, but we weren’t able to break that seal, and I think Brown deserves a lot of credit. Clemente was superb both nights...
...Brown had also made a late-season comeback of sorts—landing a win against Quinnipiac, tying Colgate, and only losing to then-No. 10 Cornell in an overtime finish—before knocking the Crimson out of the running at Bright. Although the Bears had posted their fewest regular-season victories in 20 years, the squad seemed to have bulked up defensively, making a switch in the net (to Clemente) that resulted in two of Brown’s three regular-season victories—and a historic playoff series that will send the Bears to the quarterfinals...
...Brown’s victory over Harvard wasn’t the only upset of the weekend. Eleventh-seeded Rensselaer swept sixth-seeded Dartmouth, 2-0 (3-2, 3-1), and will advance to the quarterfinal round against second-place Cornell…Harvard and Brown hold the oldest active rivalry in college hockey. Their first contest took place in Boston in 1898, and the Bears edged a 6-0 victory over the Crimson, Harvard’s last shutout at home…The Crimson is 0-9-2 when trailing after one period this season and, oddly...