Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no need for iridescent pucks or pyrotechnics; the Beanpot mystique is strong enough to stand...
...beanpot and its eponymous tournament will always be Boston symbols, evocative of a tradition as simple and alluring as a pick-up game on the frozen Charles...
...annual Beanpot luncheon was held yesterday at Legend's restaurant in the FleetCenter. All four teams competing in the tournament--Harvard, Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern--were represented by their coaches and senior players. The luncheon is an opportunity for the Boston media to interview the coaches and team members. Each coach and captain gave a brief speech assessing their team's season to date, while the captains commented upon the personal importance of the Beanpot and their memories of the tournament. The following are excerpts from those speeches...
...keep this short. Unlike a lot of the guys here, I didn't grow up in the Boston area. I was watching Major junior and not college hockey, Memorial Cup instead of the Beanpot and the Toronto Argonauts, not the Patriots...
...first memory of the Beanpot, perhaps appropriatly, is a strange one. I was watching TV with my dad one night and we had it on a channel that was showing a tournament and to tell you the truth I don't even remember who was playing, but we recognized a few of the names so we just sat down and started watching it. Problem was, Toronto really didn't get the channel and so you could imagine that the game was a bit hard to follow. So needless to say, my first Beanpot experience left me with...