Word: playoff
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...teams who are going. Wisconsin and Minnesota, were shoo-ins for the tourney. They traded off the top two spots in the national rankings for much of the season. Minnesota won the WCHA regular season crown, but Wisconsin the two-game, total goals playoff final, 5-1 and 3-2 Understandably Wisconsin is the top Western seed and Minnesota is number...
...siblings' game-winning goals, or the Ivy Rookie of the Year's terrific saves. But few Crimson partisans took the 20-minute bus ride to Northeastern last month to see Britz score his most important goal of the season, tapping in a rebound in overtime to clinch Harvard's playoff berth...
While he didn't match last year's hat trick feat (in the semi-final game against Clarkson). Sheehy feels he "played as strongly as ever in those two ECAC playoff games...
...every since he took the helm of the Harvard hockey team in 1972. In his first five years as head coach, his squads made it to the semifinals four times and to the finals twice, in '74 and '75, losing to Boston University on both occasions. Then came the playoff drought when the Crimson did not even qualify for the ECAC tournament, let alone come close to winning the Ivy Division...
Harvard hockey came into its own again just last year, when the '82 squad's magical late surge earned the Crimson the Ivy title and the ensuing ECAC playoff berth. After a 2-0 quarterfinal triumph over Boston College, and a 7-1 victory over powerful Clarkson at the Garden, Harvard found itself in the final for the first time in seven years. But Northeastern made sure that was as far as the icemen would get, as the Huskies won the final, 5-2, and took home the trophy. It was Cleary's third trip to the ECAC finals...