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...Harvard hockey team is teasing us, baiting us, coaxing us into playoff race again, just as it did last year and in so many years before...
Last night, before a packed, house of 4100 chicken-head-biting, chicken-claw-scratching Cornell fans at the hockey dungeon called Lynah Rink, the Crimson iceman, 5-4 in overtime, to even their ECAC record at 7-3-2 and keep their playoff chances alive. The win is Harvard's first in Ithaca since...
...championship, a record-setting 12th, capped the recent resurgence of the area's traditional powerhouse, a losing team for the past two seasons after 15 straight years of playoff berths...
However, the coach's minor slip of the tongue was more than appropriate, for the tie game--normally an indicator of nothing lost and nothing gained--sets back Harvard only slightly less than a loss in the icemen's quest for an ever-slipping-away playoff spot...
Harvard (6-7-2 ECAC), whose only real playoff chance is to take the Ivy Division title, now has just six ECAC contests left and still trails first-place Yale (8-6-1) by a game and a half. In addition, Cornell (7-6-1), with two wins over the weekend, has now passed the icemen and moved into second place in the division, just a half game behind the Elis. Of its remaining games, Harvard has two with Cornell and one with Yale...