With one week to go in the regular season, the ten ECAC playoff teams have
been determined, leaving Dartmouth and Yale to play for pride and eleventh
place.  The ECAC's regular season champion was officially crowned when Harvard
defeated RPI on Friday night.  As for the rest of the teams in the league,
there is still a bit of playoff positioning to do...
 
Weekend results:
 
Friday, February 25:
     Clarkson 4, VERMONT 2
     COLGATE 5, Yale 4 (OT)
     CORNELL 5, Princeton 2
     DARTMOUTH 5, St. Lawrence 2
     HARVARD 7, Rpi 5
     Union 3, BROWN 2
 
Saturday, February 26:
     BROWN 5, Rpi 1
     Clarkson 4, DARTMOUTH 2
     CORNELL 8, Yale 2
     Princeton 4, COLGATE 1
     Union 3, HARVARD 3 (OT)
     VERMONT 7, St. Lawrence 3
 
ECAC standings as of 2/27/94:
 
                    League                       Overall
Team                W   L   T  Pts   GF   GA     W   L   T  Pts   GF   GA
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* Harvard          15   2   3   33  100   54    18   4   3   39  121   71
# Brown            12   5   3   27   88   63    13   8   4   30   99   84
# Clarkson         12   5   3   27   86   63    16   8   4   36  121   94
@ RPI              10   6   4   24   85   70    16   8   4   36  136   96
$ Vermont           8   6   6   22   78   72    12  10   6   30  107   99
$ Colgate          10   8   2   22   87   78    13  13   2   28  122  110
$ Union             8   9   3   19   71   79    12   9   4   28   97   94
$ Cornell           7   8   5   19   70   75     7  13   5   19   82   98
$ Princeton         6  11   3   15   57   73     9  13   3   21   77   89
$ St. Lawrence      7  13   0   14   65   89     9  19   0   18   86  124
Dartmouth           4  15   1    9   72   98     5  19   1   11   86  124
Yale                4  15   1    9   48   93     4  20   1    9   63  124
 
$ - Clinched playoff spot
@ - Clinched preliminary round bye
# - Clinched home ice
* - Clinched regular-season title
 
Highlights of the league's final weekend include Brown playing at Clarkson in
a game that will likely determine second place, Colgate tangling with RPI in
the hopes of gaining the last home-ice playoff spot, Union and Cornell in a
probable battle for seventh place, and Dartmouth and Yale head-to-head for,
well, bragging rights.
 
Friday, March 4:
     Brown at St. Lawrence
     Colgate at Union
     Cornell at RPI
     Dartmouth at Yale
     Harvard at Clarkson
     Vermont at Princeton
 
Saturday, March 5:
     Brown at Clarkson
     Colgate at RPI
     Cornell at Union
     Dartmouth at Princeton
     Harvard at St. Lawrence
     Vermont at Yale
 
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