Beanpot Tournament

[TimV]

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.

[Trotsky]

BC up 1-0 early.

[nyc94]

2-0 now.  BC scored 4x4.

[Al DeFlorio]

Harvard Hoovering badly, 3-0.

[Trotsky]

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

[RichH]

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.

[nyc94]

4-0 now

[nyc94]

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.

[nyc94]

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.

[RichH]

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.

[nyc94]

6-0 is the final

[gored]

Is there an online feed of the games?

[RichH]

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 http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=64805&part=sports
You got to download Streamtorrent http://groups.google.com/group/streamtorrent

[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:

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.

[billhoward]

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.