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Entering its 51st year as the pinnacle of hockey season in the Hub, the Beanpot Tournament commences tonight at 5 p.m., pitting Harvard against the team that has made the tournament its own over the first fifty years of the Beanpot’s existence...
...Boston University Terriers (15-10-2) have won the Beanpot 24 times in a half-century of play and are currently ranked directly behind the Crimson in the USCHO.com national rankings...
...camp was intended to avoid another disastrous post-exam skid. Last season, the Crimson suffered through a 2-8-1 stretch from the end of exams to the start of ECAC playoffs, a slide that included Beanpot losses to both Northeastern and Boston College...
...first time in recent memory, Harvard will play only one game in the weekend before Monday’s Beanpot. The ECAC has in the past forced the Crimson to play both Friday and Saturday—often on the road—while the three other Boston-area schools have just a single game before the tournament...
With the extra day of rest, another post-exam slide would be unacceptable for the Crimson, as Harvard needs a strong showing both tonight and in the Beanpot to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and perhaps the regular-season ECAC crown...