Beanpot Tournament

Commentators open up talking about how "special" this tournament is. In the background you can see Harvard taking the ice and there are zero fans in the stands. Zero. I am not making this up.

BC up 1-0 early.

2-0 now. BC scored 4x4.

Harvard Hoovering badly, 3-0.

Danny Biega turnover leads to #3. WHRB announcers are really ranking on them.

Dang. I'm working in Cambridge this week, so I was hoping to get to the early game to watch the sucking. Maybe I'll head over for the late game.

The Beanpot Patsies living up to their unofficial nickname again.

4-0 now

5-0, getting very chippy, Ryan Grimshaw of Harvard out with a 10-minute misconduct before the goal, Harvard's Luke Greiner gets a 10-minute misconduct after.

6-0 now, Richter yanked with 5:58 to go.

And another Harvard player gone: Moriarty off for two minutes for roughing and a 10-minute misconduct.

God. If this happens every year, why is the ECAC bending over backwards to accommodate the schedules for this garbage team?

Are we sure Tufts or MIT doesn't have a club team to replace Harvard in this thing? I'm sure they can take their pounding better and bring more fans, too.

6-0 is the final

Is there an online feed of the games?

gored
Is there an online feed of the games?

From the Sucks thread:

Re: HARVARD SUCKS
Posted by: phillysportsfan (---.cable.mindspring.com) [ PM ]
Date: February 01, 2010 06:03PM

Yeah the beanpot is online here [myp2p.eu]
You got to download Streamtorrent [groups.google.com]

Ah, my favorite sports "columnist" to hate, Dan Shaughnessy had the following piece of dreck titled "In a truly sorry state" in today's Boston Globe:

Danny S.
Here’s what really killed me. Last night’s Harvard roster had only one guy from Massachusetts (Chris Huxley of Weymouth). Harvard had 11 players from Canada, one from Sweden, and one from Croatia. Boston University, last year’s national champion, featured two kids from Massachusetts (out of 21). Northeastern had four Bay Staters and Boston College a whopping 11.

Not to sound like a WTKK talk show host, but the lack of locals took something out of it for me.

Oh, provincial, provincial, provincial New England. Harvard were always the ones giving us guff for having *gasp* Canadians from our internationally-known institution on our hockey team. Now they're criticized because they don't have enough "local boys." What goes around, comes around.

Hey Dan, maybe you and Doug Woog can go get a drink somewhere while the rest of the world goes elsewhere.

Shaughnessy comes across as somewhere between factual/lamenting and whiny. Massachusetts isn't producing the level of players as before, or other places, including New York State, turned up the heat. Better that BC and BU shop around for talent and win back to back national titles.

RichH
Ah, my favorite sports "columnist" to hate, Dan Shaughnessy had the following piece of dreck titled "In a truly sorry state" in today's Boston Globe:

Danny S.
Here’s what really killed me. Last night’s Harvard roster had only one guy from Massachusetts (Chris Huxley of Weymouth). Harvard had 11 players from Canada, one from Sweden, and one from Croatia. Boston University, last year’s national champion, featured two kids from Massachusetts (out of 21). Northeastern had four Bay Staters and Boston College a whopping 11.

Not to sound like a WTKK talk show host, but the lack of locals took something out of it for me.

Oh, provincial, provincial, provincial New England. Harvard were always the ones giving us guff for having *gasp* Canadians from our internationally-known institution on our hockey team. Now they're criticized because they don't have enough "local boys." What goes around, comes around.

Hey Dan, maybe you and Doug Woog can go get a drink somewhere while the rest of the world goes elsewhere.

The complaint seems especially silly in regards to Harvard, where the student body as a ole is not (I assume) dominated by local kids. Why should the hockey team be all Bay Staters when everyone else isn't?

Danny S.
Here’s what really killed me. Last night’s Harvard roster had only one guy from Massachusetts (Chris Huxley of Weymouth). Harvard had 11 players from Canada, one from Sweden, and one from Croatia. Boston University, last year’s national champion, featured two kids from Massachusetts (out of 21). Northeastern had four Bay Staters and Boston College a whopping 11.

Not to sound like a WTKK talk show host, but the lack of locals took something out of it for me.

So our three guys from Massachusetts is as many as Harvard and BU combined.

RichH
Ah, my favorite sports "columnist" to hate, Dan Shaughnessy had the following piece of dreck titled "In a truly sorry state" in today's Boston Globe:

Danny S.
Here’s what really killed me. Last night’s Harvard roster had only one guy from Massachusetts (Chris Huxley of Weymouth). Harvard had 11 players from Canada, one from Sweden, and one from Croatia. Boston University, last year’s national champion, featured two kids from Massachusetts (out of 21). Northeastern had four Bay Staters and Boston College a whopping 11.

Not to sound like a WTKK talk show host, but the lack of locals took something out of it for me.

Oh, provincial, provincial, provincial New England. Harvard were always the ones giving us guff for having *gasp* Canadians from our internationally-known institution on our hockey team. Now they're criticized because they don't have enough "local boys." What goes around, comes around.

Hey Dan, maybe you and Doug Woog can go get a drink somewhere while the rest of the world goes elsewhere.

Shaughnessy is a douche. Last year he proclaimed BU's win over Miami to have been the greatest college hockey game ever. Made me wonder if he ever watched any other games, given that during last year's playoffs alone, you could easily have picked 4 or 5 other games that were just as good.

Killer
Shaughnessy is a douche.

The only thing standing between him and biggest fool in the Boston media is Mike Barnicle.

I didn't think Shaughnessy was criticizing any of the schools. He was lamenting the changing (disappearing?) face of Massachusetts hockey.

The Boston Globe from the Red Sox Series of the 1970s through the late 1980s was the 1927 Yankees of newspaper sportswriting. Other than a couple Boston Herald-level guys writing college hockey, it was like reading Sports Illustrated 7 days a week, only the ink came off on your hands. People like Bob Ryan have gone from boy wonders to borderline retirement age, but they still have more good days than bad.

Killer
Shaughnessy is a douche.

This is a truer fact than 1+1=2 for base n > 2. I used to read his articles every now and again, as a sort of morbid curiosity. But these days I actively stay away from him -- I don't want to give him the page clicks.

Harvard freshman defenseman Danny Biega will miss Monday’s Beanpot consolation game against Northeastern after receiving a league-imposed suspension for a check from behind in Friday night’s road contest against Brown.

[www.uscho.com]

Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

JasonN95
Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

Nah. Harvard was going to lose to Northeastern whoever they put out there. So might as well do it right.

KeithK

JasonN95
Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

Nah. Harvard was going to lose to Northeastern whoever they put out there. So might as well do it right.

Hm, yup, Harvard lost to Northeastern...as expected.

Trotsky

Killer
Shaughnessy is a douche.

The only thing standing between him and biggest fool in the Boston media is Mike Barnicle.

I somehow missed this post earlier. The world is about to come to an end, because we agree. Again.

judy

KeithK

JasonN95
Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

Nah. Harvard was going to lose to Northeastern whoever they put out there. So might as well do it right.

Hm, yup, Harvard lost to Northeastern...as expected.

Outscored this year 10-1 in the Beanpot. Why does the league bend over backwards to facilitate this again?

RichH

judy

KeithK

JasonN95
Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

Nah. Harvard was going to lose to Northeastern whoever they put out there. So might as well do it right.

Hm, yup, Harvard lost to Northeastern...as expected.

Outscored this year 10-1 in the Beanpot. Why does the league bend over backwards to facilitate this again?

They're delusional?

RichH

judy

KeithK

JasonN95
Looks like the League took the high road. The self-interested move would have been to drag their feet for a day and then hit him with a suspension to be served during the next League game.

Nah. Harvard was going to lose to Northeastern whoever they put out there. So might as well do it right.

Hm, yup, Harvard lost to Northeastern...as expected.

Outscored this year 10-1 in the Beanpot. Why does the league bend over backwards to facilitate this again?

This year they only bent over halfway. Harvard played 2 games last weekend.

Very strange...I just noticed that there's a Bully Hill Vineyards ad on the boards near the red line.

RichH
Very strange...I just noticed that there's a Bully Hill Vineyards ad on the boards near the red line.

Yeah, that's standard at the TD Garden. I think there's one at Nassau, or wherever the Islanders play, as well. Not sure if the Sabres have one, for some reason I think they do. Definitely an interesting way to advertise the winery, but not as creative as writing it on a goat.

RichH
Very strange...I just noticed that there's a Bully Hill Vineyards ad on the boards near the red line.

I noticed that when I was there for the Caps/Bruins game last week; I was surprised by it.

sockralex

RichH
Very strange...I just noticed that there's a Bully Hill Vineyards ad on the boards near the red line.

Yeah, that's standard at the TD Garden. I think there's one at Nassau, or wherever the Islanders play, as well. Not sure if the Sabres have one, for some reason I think they do. Definitely an interesting way to advertise the winery, but not as creative as writing it on a goat.

There is indeed a Bully Hill ad on the boards at the Nassau Mausoleum Coliseum.