Number-10 Rensselaer (15-6-3 9-4-3) made its way back into the rankings for the first time in several weeks.
Brown (12-6-3, 11-3-2) is continually overlooked when the national rankings come out. The Bears are only one game behind the Crimson in ECAC play and have won seven of their last eight.
Specialty Teams
Harvard's power-play and penalty-killing units have been very sharp over the entire season, but they have been the biggest reason for the team's success over its last 11 games (9-1-1). The Harvard specialty teams outscored its past three opponents' specialty units, 7-0...Not everyone on BC was thrilled during the post Beanpot celebration. With the win came a lot of exposure--too much exposure for one Eagle whose behind was caught by a television camera. "Great, I got my ass on television," he moaned... Two funny mistakes were made by the Boston Garden scoreboard operator during Monday's game. First, they made sophomore Tom Holmes into a metric unit, calling him Ton Holmes. Second, when freshman Stuart Swenson was sent to the penalty box after being pummeled by a BC thug, the scoreboard read "Harvard penalty: #12 Steve Flomenhoft." Flomenhoft graduated last year...Valentine's Day at the Beanpot has not been too much fun for the Crimson: Harvard is 1-4 on February 14 at the Garden... Harvard has lost its last three tournament overtime games. In 1992 RPI took a 4-3 OT decision in the ECAC quarterfinals, while Northern Michigan eliminated the Crimson in the first round of last year's NCAA tournament...Both of BC's Beanpot wins this year came in overtime. They nipped Northeastern, 5-4 in double overtime, last week...Martins is averaging 1.95 points a game...Israel leads the nation with a 2.14 GAA, while Brian Farrell is tops in the country with six game-winning goals...Harvard is 8-0-1 against Ivy League schools and has clinched the Ivy League title...Harvard's magic number for winning the ECAC is five wins or 10 points. Any combination of Brown miscues and Harvard triumphs lowers the magic number...Ted Drury picked up one assist and Peter Ciavaglia `91 had one goal and one assist through Team USA's first two games. Drury and Ciavaglia head the team's first powerplay line, along with Brian Rolston.
ECAC STANDINGS Team W L T Pts. Harvard 12 2 2 26 Brown 11 3 2 24 Rensselaer 9 4 3 21 Clarkson 9 4 3 21 Vermont 7 4 5 19 Colgate 8 6 2 18 Princeton 5 8 3 13 Cornell 4 7 5 13 St. Lawrence 6 10 0 12 Union 5 9 2 12 Yale 4 12 0 8 Dartmout 2 13 1 5
NCAA POLL 1. Michigan (28) 27-2-1 280 2. HARVARD 15-3-2 242 3. BU 19-7-0 215 4. Minnesota 17-9-4 195 5. Lake Superior St. 19-9-3 161 6. Colorado 19-9-2 100 6. Michigan St. 17-9-4 100 8. North. Michigan 18-11-1 79 9. UMass-Lowell 16-6-7 68 10. RPI 14-6-3 27
Compiled by the (N.Y.) Record, with first-place votes in parentheses, records and total points (through 2/13/94).