After finishing last season at 11-16-2 (its fourth straight losing season), the Elis have turned over a new leaf. Yale Coach Tim Taylor has led his team to an amazing 14-6-2, including a 9-2-3 record in the ECAC which has kept it at the top of the conference all season long.

Junior center Mark Kaufmann has handled the lion's share of the Yale's scoring duties. Kaufmann (14-12-26) is currently third in ECAC scoring.

The Bulldogs dealt the Crimson its first blow this season when the two teams skated to a 2-2 tie at Bright Arena in November. At the time, the teams had identical 3-0 records.

Yale took an early 2-0 lead in the contest, but Harvard scored in both the second and third periods to secure the tie.

Hold That Tiger

Princeton may be an unimpressive 5-9-0 in ECAC action (ninth place overall), but the team comes into Saturday's contest against the Crimson having won three of its last four conference games, including its most recent 3-2 victory against a respectable Cornell squad.

"Coach [Ronn Tommassoni] described Princeton as the best unknown team," Sneddon said.

Princeton didn't have much success, however, during its visit to Cambridge earlier this year. Harvard manhandled the Tigers, 8-1, in the Crimson's best offensive performance of the year.

"We kind of blew them out of the rink," Sneddon said. "I think it's going to be a much tougher game down there."

ECAC Standings Team  W-L-T  Pts  Overall HARVARD  10-1-3  23  11-3-3 St. Lawrence  10-3-1  21  14-6-2 Yale  9-2-3  21  11-4-3 Clarkson  9-4-1  19  15-6-1 Cornell  8-4-2  18  10-6-2 Brown  6-5-3  15  6-12-3 Colgate  7-7-0  14  10-11-1 Vermont  6-7-1  13  12-9-1 Princeton  5-9-0  10  7-10-0 Rensselaer  4-9-1  9  10-11-1 Union  1-12-1  3  2-14-1 Dartmouth  1-13-0  2  1-17-0