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For the Bruins, the defending Eastern Champions, tonight is a chance to gain revenge for last year's meet, which cost them their fourth straight league title.
The Crimson (8-3-3 regular season) and the Terriers (16-1-3) will battle to determine the New England regional champions. Tomorrow's winner will go on to face the New York champion--either Hartwick or Long Island University--next weekend.
Don't expect the Bruins to get on the winning track tonight, however. "Obviously we're playing the runners up to the national champions," Hammond said. "We'll play smart, stay out of the penalty box, and stay in the game as long as we can."
For Harvard students who skate in the show, the "Evening of Champions" performances offer the chance to return to a world many of them left behind when they entered college.
The Jimmy Fund show got its start in 1970, when a Harvard junior was hospitalized for an injury, and he met some children receiving treatment for leukemia. Three weeks later, that student, John M. Petkevich '71--who became the 1971 American Men's champion-put together the first "Evening with...