Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last night's ECAC semi-final shocker at Boston Garden, seventh-seeded Providence College whipped number one nationally-ranked powerhouse Boston University, 5-1. Boston College edged Brown 6-4 in the other semi-final contest...
...didn't really think that I forgot the ECAC hockey playoffs this weekend, did you? I mean, this typewriter is still clean, and it isn't going to be making any mistakes...
...four teams in the ECAC playoffs are Providence, Brown, Boston College and Boston University. The first three of these teams were the seventh, sixth, and fifth seeds in the ECAC tourney and they pulled off big upsets. Cornell had to eat it on their home ice against Providence. Clarkson bit the dust in Potsdam, New York, losing to Brown (a team the Crimson beat twice this year). And B.C. took it to R.P.I. in overtime, 7-6. The only seed in the first half of the standings to make it into the semi-finals...
...Boston Garden Friday and Saturday night the ECAC playoffs will be concluded. On Friday night the doubleheader will pit Brown against B.C. and Providence versus B.U. And on Saturday the finals will see the two finalists playing each other in the final game of the ECAC season. Two weeks from this weekend the two finalists will see action in the NCAA tournament at Brown...
...last time I went to an ECAC playoff was the winter of '75 when Harvard made the finals and won a trip to St. Louis for the NCAA's. I remember listening to the game between Harvard and Minnesota on the radio while I was talking on the phone and nearly fainting as the Golden Gophers scored three quick goals to put Harvard out of the national championship. Needless to say, I never talked to the girl on the other end of the phone again...