P is for puck. Without that little disc, all this would not be possible.

Q is for quarterfinals. That's the NCAA quarterfinals, this weekend at campus sites.

R is for Red Raiders. The Colgate Red Raiders came in second in the ECAC this year but bowed out of the league playoffs in the first round. Bowling Green--Harvard's opponent tonight--beat Colgate, 4-3, in December.

S is for sieve. That's a familiar taunt at Bright Center and at other rinks around the country. Harvard hopes Greg Kruzich--the Bowling Green goalie and 1983 NCAA Tournament MVP--proves to be a sieve tonight.

T is for tradition. That's a large part of Harvard hockey. That's a lot of championships; that's a lot of banners hanging in Bright; that's excellence year after year.

U is for underdog. The Crimson is not the underdog in tonight's game. But it will be an underdog to capture it's first NCAA title ever.

V is for Veritas. That's truth. Which rhymes with Duluth. Which would have been letter D, except the Bulldogs didn't make the NCAA Tournament this year. The Crimson beat them, 4-2 and 4-1, in Minnesota.

W is for Weiland. That's Ralph ("Cooney") Weiland, the great Harvard coach for 21 years who died two years ago.

X is for x'd out. Mark Benning hurt his shoulder Saturday and might have been out of action this weekend. But the senior is back, better than ever. According to Barakett, "He's geared-up. He's our inspiration."

Y is for the Yard. That's the home of C.J. Young, John Murphy and Tod Hartje--Harvard's freshman class.

Z is for Zamboni. That's the name of the machine that cleans the ice between periods.