Severl people are quoted... > >Providence won 8-5, Brown won 6-2, and BC beat RPI 7-6 in OT. Providence > >then defeated BU (for the second time that season -- those were BU's only > >two losses all year, and the Terriers would go on to take the NC$$ Champ- > >ionship). BU also lost to Yale that year. I was at that PC/BU game, and we wondered at BU's lack-luster play, until we learned that Jack Parker's wife [was dying | had recently died] of cancer. We were, of course, sympathetic. Perhaps the ECAC was, too, when it granted that 'special dispensation'. > Of course Bill is too polite to mention BU's "special dispensation" that > allowed them even to get into the NC$$s that year. In those days only 4 > teams (an Instant Phinal Phour - no fuss, no muss :-) were invited to the > NCAA Tournament (2 East from the 17-team ECAC, and 2 West from the WCHA > that at that time included several teams now in the CCHA; no CCHA teams > were considered), and the 2 East teams were usually assured to be the ECAC > Tournament Champion and runner-up. After BU's tough OT victory over #8 > UNH in the 1/4-finals, and then a loss to PC in the semi-finals, it seemed > that BU would be sittin' home come NC$$ Tournament time in favor of ECAC > Champion BC and BU vanquisher PC. But n-o-o-o-o-o-o .... For the first > (and only) time in NC$$ history, a special pre-NC$$ play-in game was ordered > played at Schneider Arena in Providence, the winner to advance with BC to > the NC$$ Tournament. Never mind that PC had already beaten BU twice that > year; BU was perceived as the "best" East representative, and the rules > were bent to allow BU yet another chance to advance. Give them their due; > they certainly made the most of their "gift" opportunity, running the > table in their next three games and claiming the NC$$ Championship. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.