Word: postseason
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teams--one of Harvard and St. Lawrence, and one of Yale and Colgate--will be shown the postseason gate at the conclusion of tonight's games. The other two are given stays of execution for at least four more days, but it is the prospect of this first fate which should scare the shorts off of seventh-year coach Ronn Tomassoni, fourth-year team manager Andy Gunderson...and every Harvard skater in between...
...this year. This year's team seems to have mentally staked its entire existence upon a desperate postseason dash like the one it made last year. Last year, an emotionally hobbled, physically depleted Crimson team streaked past a three-game series with St. Lawrence on the road, past a lake Placid date with eventual national semifinalists Vermont...
...year thereafter, the Harvard Crimson finished on top of a wild ECAC regular-season chase with an overall record of 14-7-6. Alas, it lost to eighth-seeded RPI, 4-3 in overtime, in its one and only postseason game--the single-game upset which prompted the ECAC to change its postseason format to a best-of-three quarterfinal...
...playoff runs a habit, not a diversion. Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, Joe Montana's San Francisco 49ers, Cy Youngs' Atlanta Braves...Sean McCann's Harvard Crimson. They won their playoff games and their pieces of silverware because they were legitimately good teams, occasional postseason upsets notwithstanding (e.g. Oilers vs. Flames...
...want to believe this. We all do. But the Crimson's season might end tonight. And if it does, there could be a lot of white-jerseyed skaters sitting on their postgame locker-room stools wondering why the heck they left their season to the whims of postseason fate...