The 2010 Beanpot: Featuring One Team Under Consideration

[joegrav]

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Muse is coming to life. All of the tools who were ready to throw Muse off the bus in November & December should prepare to eat their words. Ever since the Denver game he's been phenomenal and I expect that to continue during "Trophy Hunting Season."

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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The point is, you know nothing about hockey. That hit was clearly a roughing penalty. The kid left his feet and he hit up high. Gryba was upset because that wasn't the first time BC was getting away with murder. When the entire lower bowl of the Garden sees a replay and yells at the refs for being dimwits, you know they made the wrong call.

Gryba can take hits. Did you hear about Friday at Lowell when Gryba was targeted so thoroughly that he ended up with stitches in his chin. No complaining from him about that one. BC played very dirty last night. Their dives and acting skills were excellent. That said, BC was and is still the better team, but if you're going to argue that the officiating was even mediocre last night, you'd best keep your mouth shut.

This might be the funniest thing I've ever read here in my life. The irony of the first sentence is like a nice freaking bow on this present.

Thank you to all the fanboys that are complaining. It's a terrific gift for us BC fans to read.

 

[Agganis]

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I prefer this picture:

Heh, talk to me when you have a picture of yourself holding the NC in front of a table supporting six other trophies won that year

Very cool that they got the trophy to the fans so quickly. Was that as they were getting on or off the bus?

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Heh, talk to me when you have a picture of yourself holding the NC in front of a table supporting six other trophies won that year

I've got one of me holding my prized possession (my son who was 4 months old at the time) with with all 3 of BC's national title trophies (2 of which I saw in person), the Piszpot, and Lamoriello Trophy among other things.

I win. Talk to me when you get a picture taken with 2 national titles that you've seen your team win and the cutest kid in the world.

 

[ActionJoe]

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The big story that no one has mentioned about last night was Escobedo getting a hat trick. He just was not a lucky guy last night having the pucks bounce off his stick and resulting in shots getting past Millan.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Escobedo is 4 syllables and too long. Calling him his full name and not by his fanboy pet name is unacceptable.

 

[Agganis]

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Talk to me when you get a picture taken with 2 national titles that you've seen your team win and the cutest kid in the world.

Check on the first part, (although they are different pictures, one with the first 4 NCs and then one with all of last years trophies)and as for the second half, I'm pretty glad I don't have a kid right now, no MTV reality shows in my near future...

 

[TommyNoblesIsLife]

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Uh, Nick, that would actually be fanGIRL, thank you very much. I'm not saying BU lost that game because of the refs. Saponari cannot whiff on 3 empty nets. I for the life of me cannot figure out how he is still on the power play. BU is not a better team than BC, and in a game that closely contested, the better team should and did win.

What I'm saying is that the reffing was terrible. How many times did the zebras get in the way of the play for both sides? How many calls did they miss for both sides? BU let the reffing get into their heads; BC did not, and that statement says a lot about the mental strength of the Terriers this year. Yet, in a championship game, I would expect better reffing than that. How much longer can Hockey East allow Gravallese and Benedetto in the same game? This is not a solely Boston University issue.

 

[Tater]

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Don't you mean contingency?

Noted.

Cut me some slack, I'm in the midst of some 15 hour workdays!

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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BU is not a better team than BC, and in a game that closely contested, the better team should and did win.

Agreed.

BU let the reffing get into their heads; BC did not, and that statement says a lot about the mental strength of the Terriers this year. Yet, in a championship game, I would expect better reffing than that. How much longer can Hockey East allow Gravallese and Benedetto in the same game? This is not a solely Boston University issue.

Let me tell you why they got into the heads of BU and not BC. It's got nothing to do with mental strength. It's got to do with expectations. BC expects to get effed royally like they do every year - no biggie. BU expects to need a few gifts to hoist the Pot. When they needed to reach into their bag of tricks, they came up empty this time and their reaction was exactly what you'd expect from someone in that situation. You should have seen their faces on the bench! We can all act like things don't happen, call them conspiracy theories, etc. But in the end, everyone that's seen the last 10-15 Piszpots has seen such BU benefit annually from an absolutely ludicrous amount of favorable calls. Some people would never admit it, but that's fine.

The funny part is that BU fans are starting to notice the officiating issue in the league this morning. Or that newbies don't know the history of this thing and don't understand why it's so funny to see them complaining. No one cares when BC midgets were constantly pounded behind the play with no calls. Or when teams would jump guys over the boards in a brawl so they could get 10x5 fights. Or when the refs don't know the rules and need to change the scoresheet beneath the arena before they leave so a proper penalty is on the final scoresheet. Or when guys hook down the best player in the country with 30 seconds left in a tie game to allow the GWG in a HE title game. Now, this morning, on grounddog day, do they notice it.

Fact of the matter is, the officiating is subpar and always has been. Not just the Piszpot. But, Joe Bertagna is a clown of the highest order and if you dare challenge him on this subject, he will "vehemently disagree" as he told me.

 

[J.D.]

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I'm certainly not saying they're great, but I still think those are the best refs Hockey East has, especially in that environment. I will say it must be extremely difficult to ref a BC-BU game at a venue like that and really don't think they did a terrible job to be honest with you. To me, the only egregious error was not calling interference on Gibbons' hit. BU got the PP right after that, so I'm just not seeing it. It's not like we had a Tom Quinn call on Cam Atkinson during a tie game when everything prior was let go.

What BU should be focusing on: play against other teams like they do against BC.

 

[Federal League]

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This might be the funniest thing I've ever read here in my life.

Let me tell you why the got into the heads of BU and not BC. It's got nothing to do with mental strength. It's got to do with expectations. BC expects to get effed royally like they do every year. BU expects to need a few gifts to hoist the Pot.

Making fun of someone else and then posting garbage like this is pretty funny, too.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Making fun of someone else and then posting garbage like this is pretty funny, too.

Oh sure. It couldn't possibly be THAT! How many Piszpots have you watched? I'm betting not as many as I have.

Send me a postcard from Fantasyland. Same address as the BC admissions office (I assume you have the thin letter with the return address on it).

 

[SPIN CONTROL]

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BC expects to get effed royally like they do every year - no biggie.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus.......

 

[slurpees]

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Oh sure. It couldn't possibly be THAT! How many Piszpots have you watched? I'm betting not as many than me.

Send me a postcard from Fantasyland. Same address as the BC admissions office (I assume you have the thin letter with the return address on it).

you really must be a bc grad if you're regurgitating the same two lines over and over again ad naseum. your act is quite old.

 

[Federal League]

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Oh sure. It couldn't possibly be THAT! How many Piszpots have you watched? I'm betting not as many as I have.

Send me a postcard from Fantasyland. Same address as the BC admissions office (I assume you have the thin letter with the return address on it).

No, probably not as many as you have. That may or may not have anything to do with the fact that I'm, you know, younger than you. I have, however, watched every Beanpot since 96 or 97 and been to 7.

And, for the 154th time, I didn't apply to BC. So nice logic, Einstein.

 

[TommyNoblesIsLife]

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I've been watching BU hockey and the Beanpot since I was born 20 years ago. I've been booing Gravallese for as long as I can remember. This morning is not the first day that I have noticed how bad the officiating is. I've been seeing and complaining about it all year. I hope Hockey East has some better way to evaluate refs, because this year has been a bad year for refs from the first night the puck dropped.

I've got to say, however, that I'm not really sure why as a grown man you are posting on this board all day long and making fun of kids who are still in college. If you have children, I would think you have something better to do. I'm in class right now, thus my incessant posting, but I've got to say that this BC reject theory of yours just isn't a good general statement. My SAT scores and GPA were way higher than BC asked for, yet I did not apply there. I'm not a BC reject. I probably would have gotten in. I'm glad, however, that academics applies so strongly to hockey discussion in your mind. Surely the student athletes on all of these teams could have gotten into BC or BU or UML (well, they probably could have gotten into UML anyways) had they not played hockey.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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If you want to review old Beanpot footage, go right ahead and come back and argue with me. Otherwise, you could drown yourself in your bucket of tears last night and I wouldn't care.

 

[BU Hammer]

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The big story that no one has mentioned about last night was Escobedo getting a hat trick. He just was not a lucky guy last night having the pucks bounce off his stick and resulting in shots getting past Millan.

He only got two. Millan said postgame that Escobedo didn't tip that last goal -- Millan just whiffed with the glove.

 

[TommyNoblesIsLife]

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Footage of our 29 Beanpots or your 15? Maybe I'll just watch footage of the 1988 game. I had not yet been born for that one.