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...important is tonight's ECAC preliminary round playoff game against St. Lawrence for Harvard Hockey...
...stakes could not be any higher. Harvard has already fallen on the wrong side of the line which has divided the ECAC into haves and have-nots, top six and bottom six, every March since the league implemented its current playoff structure four years ago. The top six play next on Friday in the ECAC quarterfinals; everyone else either plays tonight or wishes they were still around...
...Lawrence team which finished 20-12-3, finished as high as third in the ECAC for the first time since 1991-92 but lost to Harvard in a three-game series, or the Harvard team which struggled to its worst regular season since 1979-80 but made that great playoff...
...saying that there is an empirically correct answer to the above question. But I will tell you this: a good playoff run doesn't cure ills which are intrinsic to a mediocre hockey team. It only makes you forget about them for a while...
...tell you a story. In 1991, the Minnesota North Stars finished with the 16th-best record in what was then a 21-team National Hockey League. Come playoff-time, the Stars snuck past one, two, three opponents, and Holy Cow, all of the sudden they were in the Stanley Cup Finals against Pittsburgh...