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Union, tied for the last playoff spot entering the night , played a classic desperate hockey game and dictated the flow of the contest from the opening draw. Keeping three men back on defense at almost all times, the Skating Dutchmen successfully slowed the game to a crawl, holding the Crimson to just 21--mostly weak--shots on goal and almost no offensive flow...
However, I don't think anyone would have predicted two squandered leads and a 3-2 loss to Union, a mediocre team fighting for its playoff life...
However, it wasn't so much the Crimson's split last weekend that moved Harvard into the third slot. Rather, the Crimson owe their ranking to the remarkable parity among the remaining 11 teams vying for playoff spots. As this weekend demonstrated, just about every team in this league is capable of beating every other squad in the conference...
While only the ECAC and WCHA conference playoff champions receive automatic bids to the Final Four, the winner of a Harvard-St. Lawrence semifinal game would be assured of an at-large bid regardless of its performance in the final. The loser would most likely be done for the season...
...slack off at all," Suurkask said. "It's great that we're playing teams that are fighting for playoff spots. It makes us fight and work harder. If we are going to win, we need to come with our best game...