Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They say that anything can happen at a Beanpot. That ranks up with Watergate and Santa Claus as widespread misinformation. Things will be just as usual. Harvard won't have any more effective defensemen tonight than it did during all of January. Rick Meagher and Mike Eruzione won't blaze onto the pale blue ice, one last game of college eligibility magically remaining, and lead the Terriers to victory. Jackie Parker won't mellow...
What happens at the Beanpot is exactly the same as what happens at every other sporting event--the best team usually wins. When it doesn't, and an underdog rises to the occasion--last year for instance--the result is a stirring, dramatic contest that sends highly ranked losers back to conference play reeling and troubled, and infuses the previously lowly winners with a spirit of regeneration. But those are the upsets...
People remember the upsets, but the hard facts of life for the losers in this world read like this: Boston University was the best college hockey team in the East during the 1970s, and Northeastern was one of the worst. B.U.'s Beanpot totals for the decade are 16 wins and four losses. The Huskies went...
...Huskies, however, were resilient and relentless--in a word, dogged. Gerry Cowie, Paul MacDougall and Sandy Beadle whisked all over the ice for the heretofore hapless Huntington Hounds, who had never struck Beanpot gold in the tourney's 27 years...
...week later, I was at Boston Garden watching the Northeastern Huskies scratch and claw their way to the Beanpot crown. The UnderDogs were overmatched by the formidable B.C. Eagles, who jumped out to an early lead...