Word: playoff
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...Harvard women's hockey team is peaking as it heads to Durham, NH, for tomorrow's 7 p.m. playoff game against New Hampshire, but it may need its best performance of the year to upset the Wildcats...
...Harvard (14-15, 8-14 ECAC), playing its first playoff game since 1995, still has a chance to participate in the sport's first national tournament...
Three other teams will go to the national tournament. If the Wildcats lose the ECAC tournament, then the ECAC champion will join UNH and two wild-cards. The remaining eligible teams would be the six other ECAC playoff contenders along with Minnesota, the only Division I school outside the ECAC...
...Crimson can make the tournament by winning the ECAC championship or by impressing the wildcard voters with a strong playoff performance. Both national semifinals will be at Harvard's Bright Hockey Center on March 20, and the championship game will be the following day at the FleetCenter in Boston...
With the final playoff spot in reach, the Crimson must be on top of its game this weekend. And although an eighth place finish would set up an undesirable first-round matchup against ECAC-champion New Hampshire (26-4-2, 16-1-2 ECAC), anything less than the postseason would be a disappointment for the Crimson...