The ECAC regular season ended with a bang, especially at Union's Achilles
Rink, where the Dutchmen stretched their unbeaten streak to nine and in the
process moved into sixth place and a dream quarterfinal matchup with neigh-
boring rival RPI.  Results from the weekend:
 
Friday, March 4:
     Harvard 2, CLARKSON 2 (OT)
     RPI 9, Cornell 1
     ST. LAWRENCE 6, Brown 1
     UNION 7, Colgate 6
     Vermont 4, PRINCETON 2
     YALE 9, Dartmouth 5
 
Saturday, March 5:
     CLARKSON 4, Brown 2
     Harvard 5, ST. LAWRENCE 4 (OT)
     PRINCETON 4, Dartmouth 3
     RPI 5, Colgate 4 (OT)
     UNION 5, Cornell 2
     Vermont 4, YALE 1
 
Final regular-season ECAC standings:
 
                    League                       Overall
Team                W   L   T  Pts   GF   GA     W   L   T  Pts   GF   GA
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* Harvard          16   2   4   36  107   60    19   4   4   42  128   77
# Clarkson         13   5   4   30   92   67    17   8   5   39  127   98
# RPI              12   6   4   28   99   75    18   8   4   40  150  101
# Brown            12   7   3   27   91   73    13  10   4   30  102   94
@ Vermont          10   6   6   26   86   75    14  10   6   34  115  102
@ Union            10   9   3   23   83   87    14   9   4   32  109  102
$ Colgate          10  10   2   22   97   90    13  15   2   28  132  122
$ Cornell           7  10   5   19   73   89     7  15   5   19   85  112
$ Princeton         7  12   3   17   63   80    10  14   3   23   83   96
$ St. Lawrence      8  14   0   16   75   95    10  20   0   20   96  130
Yale                5  16   1   11   58  102     5  21   1   11   73  133
Dartmouth           4  17   1    9   80  111     5  21   1   11   94  137
 
$ - Clinched playoff berth
@ - Clinched preliminary round bye
# - Clinched home ice
* - Clinched regular-season title
 
The playoffs will get under way with the preliminary round Tuesday night,
when Cornell hosts Princeton and St. Lawrence travels to Colgate.  The
higher-seeded preliminary-round winner will then go to Clarkson for the
quarterfinals, while the lower seed will travel to Harvard.  In the other
quarterfinal matchups (all beginning Friday night), Union will be at RPI and
Brown will host Vermont.
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