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...teams have met once before in post-season play. In 1975, the Islanders stunned the hockey world in only their third year of existence by upsetting the detested New York Rangers in the preliminary round and then, against Pittsburgh, becoming only the second team in sports history to capture a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games...
Meanwhile, Giamatti met with student athletes the next day to clarify his proposals for limiting Ivy League recruiting and post-season competition...
Giamatti, insisting his comments had been misunderstood, told athletes and coaches he never would prohibit either recruiting or post-season competition...
...said the presidents (of the Ivy League) must discuss restricting recruiting and that the presidents must cease to think of post-season competition as a natural and necessary consequence of victory," Giamatti said in a statment released after the meeting with the coaches...
...That doesn't say ban," the statement continued. "Had I wished to say ban with regard to either recruiting or post-season competition, I would have done so. I did not say that," the statement said...