Word: play-off
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BOSTON vs. PITTSBURGH: Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Next? If you have to miss any Bruin play-off games, this is your big opportunity. Penguins can surprise but won't, while Bruins have kicked the habit of chocking in opening rounds since their 1975 disaster against Chicago. Four Harry Sinden yawns...
After a stirring first-round defeat of Brown and a predictable loss to tough arch-foe Yale, the Cagers hoped to end their final game of the season with a victory over Princeton in the play-off consolation fight for third place...
...victory gave the Big Green their second consecutive Ivy Championship and all but eliminated the Crimson from the ECAC play-off race. Harvard's ECAC record dropped to 6-10-2, while Dartmouth now stands...
...first at Harvard for rookie coach MacAusland. This year's team, with just one senior on the roster, had been expected to face a rebuilding year. But co-captain Sailer voiced a general optimism after the Bowdoin win, saying an Ivy League Championship and regional play-off berth were both very real possibilities. "(Coach MacAusland's) just what we needed at this point," Sailer said...
...Colorado's well-heeled booster club, the answer was to call a power play: go after a pro football coach. And not just any coach, but Chuck Fairbanks, 45, who in three seasons had turned the New England Patriots from the bumblers of the N.F.L. into a play-off team...