Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while not exactly meteoric, has been rapid. Three seasons of respectable play at Northeastern for the bruising six-ft, 200-lb. winger brought 20 goals, 24 assists and a list of bonecrunching checks you couldn't fit on a roll of adding machine paper. They didn't bring much Beanpot distinction for Nilan, whose tournament achievements include missing the final game of the 1978 Beanpot while sitting out a suspension for a fight at Colgate, getting four penalties in another Beanpot outing, and going pro in the Huskies' only victorious year...
...have any Beanpot memories I really cherish," Nilan says, shifting conversation toward some of his other collegiate performances. But when he speaks of the whole tournament, beyond his own record in it, the West Roxbury native voices feelings for it that echo Silk's: "The Beanpot itself is a great tournament. I feel it's the greatest one in the country, with all its tradition and everything." And, like Silk, he says he grew up eagerly awaiting the day he would get to skate out on the Garden...
...life after the Beanpot, the Canadiens sent Nilan to their Nova Scotia farm team in 1979 to hone his skills and then called upon his services in February of that year. He has remained in the NHL ever since. He saw regular action last year, but this year has played sporadically. Yet, when he talks about his stats, you know they are as respectable and by intimidating...
...Mullen, but the rolls are thick with others who have yet to make it. Former Crimson blueliner Jackie Hughes a veteran of three 'Pots is plying his trade in the unlikely locale of Fort Worth for a Colorado Rockies farm club, while one of Mullen's Eagle teammates. 1976 Beanpot MVP Paul Skidmore, is tending net in Salt Lake City for the Blues tranchise there...
When the Harvard University hockey team faces off tonight in the opening round of the Beanpot against Boston University, they will not be playing in the second, highlight of-the-evening game as originally scheduled. The Crimson--last year's Cinderella Beanpot champion and provider of some of the most exciting hockey ever to shake the ratters of ot Boston Garden--the Terriers--for so long the holders of the key to the trophy case, with 22 Beanpot finals (including 16 straight) and a record 11 'Pots to their credit--have been pushed to the undercard. The supposedly more attractive...