Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and B.U. will christen the 30th annual Beanpot tourney tonight, a situation that doesn't bother the coach of the defending champions. "It doesn't make any difference to me whether we play first or second," says Harvard's Bill Cleary. "The ice is a little better for the first game anyway...
...treated the Crimson pretty well in the first game of last year's Beanpot, when Harvard shocked pretourney favorite Northeastern, 10-2. Led by the goaltending of tournament Most Valuable Player Wade Lau, the Crimson went on to treat itself pretty well on the second February Monday of 1981, handcuffing a powerful Boston College squad, 2-0, to take home the beans for the first time since...
Despite last year's heroics. Harvard will once again enter the Beanpot as the decided underdog, with losses this season to both B.U. and B C. The Crimson has not played Northeastern yet this year, but the Huskies as a team have been scoring with Gretskyan an efficiency and currently rate among the top squads in the East...
...course, it is part of Beanpot legend that the expected will be damned when the puck hits the ice on the first Monday night in February at the Boston Garden. And for the last two seasons (Northeastern in '80 and Harvard last year), the underdog has had the 'Pot in its lap when all was said and done. But if you're expecting it to happen for the third time in a row, watch out. Remember, the expected be damned...
Eight-time Beanpot champion Harvard (5-7-1 ECAC, 5-9-1 overall), despite its recent slide under 500 and an extended schedule which left the team with only two practices to prepare for tonight's game, could conceivably turn in a repeat performance. The team started out 5-3-1 in ECAC play but then suffered its annual January thaw, dropping four straight conference games, including a 4.3 loss to B.C. at home before breaking for exams two weeks ago. Last year, the team dragged a seven-game ECAC losing streak into the tournament and proceeded to knock North...