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...failure to defeat the Skating Dutchmen also meant the Harvard lost the opportunity to claim sole possession of third place in the ECAC. The Crimson is currently tied with Cornell at 23 points, but the Big Red holds the tiebreaker meaning Harvard will need to win and get some help from these very same Engineers and Dutchmen next weekend to finish in the top three of the ECAC...
Union, tied for the last playoff spot entering the night , played a classic desperate hockey game and dictated the flow of the contest from the opening draw. Keeping three men back on defense at almost all times, the Skating Dutchmen successfully slowed the game to a crawl, holding the Crimson to just 21--mostly weak--shots on goal and almost no offensive flow...
From there, the Skating Dutchmen were content to sit back on the lead and continually clear the zone, icing the puck if necessary, and let the clock wind down...
...Skating Dutchmen, looking to overcome a demoralizing 2-2 knot with conference bottom-feeder Brown--who has already bowed out of the playoffs for the seventh straight year--snapped the Crimson's two-game win streak with a gritty come-from-behind victory...
Harvard will travel to RPI and Union this weekend. The Engineers also have fallen apart as of late, and the Skating Dutchmen, regardless of their recent run, will forever be eminently beatable. The season finale is a duece at home against pushover Princeton and an inferior Yale team who only beat Harvard earlier this year because of the Crimson's injuries...