Blair wasn't mentioned. But it's hard to see how the award committee could overlook his play this year--especially in comparison to Terreri's.

Terreri owns a 4-14-0 record compared with Blair's 15-4-1 mark.

His goals-against-average is 4.00, a goal-and-a-half more than Blair's.

The only category in which Terreri out-performs Harvard's senior netminder is save percentage. Terreri ownes a .901 percentage, a little better than Blair's .897.

Terreri may be a sentimental choice because of his stellar performance in last year's NCAA tournament, in which he led the underdog Friars to the finals against RPI. He was named the tournament MVP, despite his team's 2-1 loss to the Engineers.

Draper, too, must be considered a candidate. And before his stomach muscle pull that sidelined him for the consolation game of the Beanpot and the Crimson's last two ECAC contest, Bourbeau was also mentioned in connection with the Hobey Baker Award.

Bourbeau, like UMD's Hull, is a sophomore and will have up to two more years to pursue the award.

But this is Fusco's last chance.

If the ECAC playoffs were held today, the Crimson would host eighth-place St. Lawrence (14-12 overall, 8-10 ECAC). RPI would battle Colgate at Troy's Houston Field House, Vermont would visit Yale (16-8 overall, 12-6 ECAC), and Cornell would take on Clarkson (12-10-3 overall, 9-6-3 ECAC) in Ithaca.

St. Lawrence, which had to forfeit its January 4 victory over Army, is hanging on to last playoff spot over Princeton (10-14-2 overall, 6-10-1 ECAC).

The forfeit was awarded because St. Lawrence skated an ineligible player, Joe McEachern. McEachern had transferred from Boston College at mid-year but had not completed an academic year at St. Lawrence.

All individual statistics for the game remain valid, but the result has been changed to "loss by forfeit."

Ninth-place Princeton hurt its chances for a playoff birth by losing 5-3 at RPI and 5-2 at Vermont last weekend.

The Larries, meanwhile, have recovered from their 0-7 opening league mark, winning eight out of their last 10 games--including a recent sweep of Yale and Brown.

ECAC STANDINGS Team  W  L  T  GF  GA  Overall Harvard  15  2  0  100  42  16-5-1 RPI  12  4  1  82  62  19-6-1 Yale  12  6  0  85  61  16-8-0 Cornell  10  5  2  77  58  13-5-3 Clarkson  9  6  3  80  60  12-10-3 Vermont  9  8  0  49  49  15-10-0 Colgate  8  8  1  70  84  14-10-2 SLU  8  10  0  74  78  14-12-0 Princeton  6  10  1  59  63  10-14-2 Army  2  9  0  36  57  14-10-1 Dartmouth  3  14  0  45  96  6-15-0 Brown  3  15  0  56  105  4-15-0