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Beanpot LXX: Timeless!

moose97 said:
Frozen Four?
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You've gotta be kidding! The FF has become a corporate event. College bands capped at ~30 pieces and stuck in the upper rafters; relatively few students; preponderance of spectators having no formal attachment to any of the competing teams. Sterile.

The Beanpot, by contrast has unlimited student sections that spend much of each game impolitely woofing each other; big blaring bands; a "must see" for local actual and "subway" alumni plus parents/faculty/staff; raw emotion capped off with four teams that know each other very well but inherently don't like each other very much. So yeah, nothing to see here.
 
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Heh. USCHO itself lables the pot as overrated lol
https://www.uscho.com/2023/01/31/tm...-team-predicting-ncaa-tournament-dark-horses/

As someone who grew up in and around Boston, I realize it’s sacrilegious to say what I’m about to say, but for a number of years and a number of reasons, I always called the Beanpot the most overrated tournament of the year. I specifically remember how ECAC had to schedule around Harvard, which meant a certain number of teams couldn’t play the Crimson in February because of the travel component, and it drove me insane that people got hung up by a tournament that had been won by Boston University on an annual basis. Boston College’s rise tilted some of that, but the lack of championships surrounding Northeastern and Harvard made the tournament, to me, an overrated, nostalgic piece of an outdated era.
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Split-N said:
You've gotta be kidding! The FF has become a corporate event. College bands capped at ~30 pieces and stuck in the upper rafters; relatively few students; preponderance of spectators having no formal attachment to any of the competing teams. Sterile.

The Beanpot, by contrast has unlimited student sections that spend much of each game impolitely woofing each other; big blaring bands; a "must see" for local actual and "subway" alumni plus parents/faculty/staff; raw emotion capped off with four teams that know each other very well but inherently don't like each other very much. So yeah, nothing to see here.
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What part of "no one outside Boston gives a shit" are you missing? Everything you mentioned makes fans of the teams involved cream their pants. Outside the Hub (which says it all that y'all think of yourselves thw way that nickname originated)? Yawn.
 
But you conveniently left out a later part of the same quote (emphasis added):
"...The reason there’s even an argument over the Beanpot is because people care way too much about it. For what it’s worth, I’ve come back around on the tournament, and as someone who revisited his personal roots over the past 10 years, I’ve come to realize how much I love the neighborhood feel. The Nutmeggers (meaning Connecticut Ice) deserve better."​
 
Split-N said:
But you conveniently left out a later part of the same quote (emphasis added):
"...The reason there’s even an argument over the Beanpot is because people care way too much about it. For what it’s worth, I’ve come back around on the tournament, and as someone who revisited his personal roots over the past 10 years, I’ve come to realize how much I love the neighborhood feel. The Nutmeggers (meaning Connecticut Ice) deserve better."​
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He went on to say he's come back around on the tournament. Harvard has won finally and Northeastern won 3x in a row.
 
Lol again. Guy gets pressured by the locals to suppress his true feelings to fit in. Again - Bostonians care. Everyone else? Yawn.
 
Here at NU tonight...my prediction BU 4 NU 2. NU is looking horrible, if not for Levi they would be losing by 4 or 5 goals. Not feeling good vs BU.
 
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I don't think it works that way.

Question for you all - prior to the formation of Hockey East when all four schools were in the ECAC, did these games count in the league standings unlike nowadays when they're considered OOC games?
 
Scarlet said:
I don't think it works that way.

Question for you all - prior to the formation of Hockey East when all four schools were in the ECAC, did these games count in the league standings unlike nowadays when they're considered OOC games?
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Not that I ever remember. Non-conference.
 
Scarlet said:
...prior to the formation of Hockey East when all four schools were in the ECAC, did these games count in the league standings unlike nowadays when they're considered OOC games?
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It was pre-OOC and pre-PWR. The games were categorized as "non-league" and results may or may not have had an impact on the various subjective polls.
 
moose97 said:
If you want an in-season tourney, the field at the GLI is probably as good & the top 3 are definitely better. The last month of HEA taking a massive dump ain't helping your argument lol
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But the GLI doesn't have the same field every year. The whole POINT is the tradition and history. Something permanent that endures. I'm sorry if people don't like the fact that it's "regional and provincial" and if you're not from here you don't care. So go start your own tournament and develop some history and tradition. Don't disparage ours.
 
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I feel like it's one of those things you need to attend before you knock it. It's one of my favorite spectator events of the year. Also, I love how college hockey fans love to knock something that promotes college hockey lol
 
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