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When the DC-10 the team rode home from St. Paul finally pulled into Logan Airport yesterday morning, a smattering of fans and a few TV cameras greeted the champions.
A sign reading "#1 Harvard Hockey, NCAA Champions," was draped across the side of the team bus.
Maine was expected to be here. After a third-place finish in last year's NCAA tourney, the Black Bears were strongly favored to repeat as league champions. The regular-season title didn't materialize, but Maine made up for it in the post-season tournament.
Since the NCAA cannot increase the number of automatic bids given to conference champions until 1998, a pair of other conferences will lose their respective automatic bids.
The Lakers (29-9-6), the defending national champions, will face Harvard at Bright Center this Friday in the opening game of a best-of-three series.