Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whoever wins the opener, though, should win the Beanpot. After all, the last four Beanpot champions haven't made the playoffs, and both B.C. and B.U. own a virtual lock on ECAC berths...
...hobby in the '80s. Northeastern came out of nowhere in 1980, with a 3-11 pre-tournament record; first-round opponent B.U. had won 16 straight semifinals. N.U. stunned the Terriers in sudden death, 6-5. The following week's victims from the Heights were top-rated in the ECAC...
...last year, with some observers proclaiming that B.C. would always choke in the big games and never get that first 'Pot since 1976 (and second since 1965), the Eagles fooled their critics. Against a powerful Harvard squad (the eventual ECAC champs) in the semifinal, unheralded freshman Bob Sweeney set up the trying goal with four minutes left in the regulation and, after his team survived a Crimson power play in overtime, stole the puck in the Harvard zone to set up Ed Rauseo for the game-winner--all to set the stage for the rout of N.U. a week later...
Remember only the 2-1 first period and the 2-1 final score that lifted Harvard to a 7-7-1 ECAC record and a two-game bulge in the Ivy Division standing And remember Grant Blair...
...whole thing didn't seem to bother Cleary, though--With Yale falling to 5-9 and Cornell sinking to 5-10 (after a 6-3 loss at Vermont Saturday), Harvard's 7-7-1 conference record gives it the inside track to the Ivy division title and the accompanying ECAC playoff seed, And with the Beanpot starting tonight at 6-15, the Crimson has a red-hot goalie. Two periods of no offense not-withstanding, Cleary was pleased...