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Coming off a weekend which included a 6-6 tie with Yale and a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Colgate, the icemen, 6-9-2 in ECAC play, go up against an aggressive Big Green team, ranked seventh in the nation and featuring senior center Ross Brownridge. Brownridge tops the ECAC Division One scoring chart with 24 goals and 19 assists...
...loss to Colgate Sunday night just about silences the playoff talk floating around the Bright Center. The situation that seemed so promising a week ago now looks like this: a 6-9-2 record and a tie for tenth place in the ECAC with Boston University. Technically, the icemen are ahead of B.U. because they won this year's regular-season meeting, but after the eighth spot it doesn't matter much anyway...
With four games to go, the icemen have the luxury of perhaps one tie. They'll bus up to Dartmouth Wednesday night to face the Big Green--14-5-1 overall and awesome at home--come back to Bright for part II of The Game next Saturday, and then return North the following weekend to face the prince and the pauper: Clarkson (11-7; the conference's highest scoring team) and St. Lawrence (3-15--the cellar...
...still too early to say for sure, of course, but right now the best bets are Colgate and Cornell. That would leave the icemen out of the action for the third consecutive year, but this time it's not a disappointment, as a young, exciting team has made '79-'80 a vivid, memorable season. I'm not counting the Crimson out, but as a famous philosopher once wrote: "It ain't gonna be easy." ECAC Division One Hockey Standings Ivy Division: Dartmouth 14-5-1 Cornell 9-9-0 Harvard 6-9-2 Brown 6-11-2 Princeton...
...other berth is still up for grabs, and that's what the icemen are shooting for. If Cornell can win twice, they'll get it, but if not, Harvard may be next in line, unless B.U. gets nostalgic or Maine conquers the road...