BEANPOT 2010 FINALE SCORE GUESS: BC 3 BU 1

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:30 pm

4-3 with 2:46 left.

C'mon Eagles. Score again. Please!

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:32 pm

Alrite. Under 2 min left. Keep taking shots.

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:33 pm

BU pulls their goalie.

Under 1 min left.

by **b0mberMan** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:34 pm

That drunk can't remember what he did 5 seconds ago.

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:36 pm

20 sec left.

by **OldEaglePub** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:37 pm

Game over!!!

by **b0mberMan** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:37 pm

Some big saves by Muse at the end.

Sucks to BU!

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:37 pm

BU offsides with 2 seconds left.

by **Eagledom** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:37 pm

woooooohoooooo. fuck you BU

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:38 pm

Beanpot champs!!!!!!

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:40 pm

Attach that BC banner.

Beanpot champions, bitch.

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:47 pm

Puerto Rico Eagle {l Wrote}: 4
BU 3

Winnah winnah.

by **dixieagle** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:47 pm

Whew...

by **AdamBC** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:49 pm

Second place....

2008Eagle {l Wrote}: - 4
- 3

by **janebc** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:51 pm

Happy Heart Attack City!!

by **2008Eagle** on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:52 pm

AdamBC {l Wrote}:Second place....

2008Eagle {l Wrote}: - 4
- 3

I was due to get a prediction right one of these days!

by **Puerto Rico Eagle** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:05 am

AdamBC {l Wrote}:
Puerto Rico Eagle {l Wrote}: 4
BU 3

Winnah winnah.

I'm so smaht....

by **NJM89** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:21 am

Dont really follow BC hockey to much but congrats to the team!!! :angrychicken

by **Endless Mike** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:39 am

I thought they were going to let those damn gutterpups tie it up at the end. Muse was spittin hot fiyah all night. Sick game.

This BC team is not only supremely talented, but they play with character and they don't give up when down early. That kind of character comes from the top. Coach Classy 4 ever, Jack the Angry Drunk never.

by **claver2010** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:10 am

Very good game, first period was terrible but to hold them in that tournament to 1 goal was important. 2nd period was BC hockey, speed pressure and transition. Those last 10 minutes took forever. Muse was excellent and is really picking it up. Will have full thoughts tomorrow.

Would not want to be Parker's liver right now. :suicide

by **claver2010** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:18 am

Kreider's insane goal is already on youtube:

by **AdamBC** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:45 am

I'm sharing the good news:

http://www.insidemdsports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28479

by **buconvict** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:24 am

The Beanpot doesn't matter anyway.

Good game, aside from BC's first goal being complete crap. BC is ultra fast and it showed tonight.

by **BCEagle74** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:42 am

Homegrown Talent Keys Boston College Victory
by Dave Hendrickson/Hockey East Correspondent
BOSTON (Feb. 9) — Has the Beanpot left the Boston area kid behind? If you listen to some people, it has, and depending on where you look, they have a point.

Last week, Boston University, long a bastion of Massachusetts-bred talent, advanced to the championship because of goals by Colby Cohen (Villanova, Pa.) and Alex Chiasson (St. Augustin, Quebec) along with 26 saves by Kieran Millan (Edmonton, Alberta).

Whatever happened to Southie, Winthrop, and Reading?

In fact, next year BU is expected to have more kids from California on its roster than Massachusetts.

California? More kids than Massachusetts?

Someone, however, forgot to tell Boston College, which defeated BU, 4-3, to take its second Beanpot title in three years. Of the Eagles who dressed for the championship game, 11 came from Massachusetts. Want to talk contributions? Let’s count the ways.

Freshman Steven Whitney (Reading) scored a critical power-play goal to even the score early in the second, 1-1. Later in the period, another freshman, Chris Kreider (Boxford), dazzled by beating a BU defender one-on-one and then making a great move on Millan to stake the Eagles to a 3-1 lead. Barry Almeida (Springfield) scored a crucial insurance goal early in the third on a two-on-one.

Assisting on the various goals were Bay State natives Brian Gibbons (Braintree), Matt Lombardi (Milton) and Jimmy Hayes (Dorchester).

Tournament MVP John Muse (East Falmouth) stopped 31 shots and, combined with his shutout of Harvard in the opening round, earned the Eberly Award for best save percentage.

“We’re always trying to win the recruiting wars in our backyard,” BC coach Jerry York said after the win. “That’s important for us.

“A lot of our good players are right from this area. There was a down cycle for Massachusetts hockey for a while, but it’s starting to come up again.”

Of course, geography is only one variable in the equation.

“You also want to get the best players,” York said. “So if a boy is from California and he’s the best left wing, we’re going to try for that player.”

Mindful of Matti Kaltiainen’s contributions just a handful of years ago, York added with a grin, “We’ll go to Finland for a goalie.”

Perhaps, however, the overwhelmingly local flavor of the roster has been a factor in BC’s recent success, wresting away BU’s former stranglehold.

“It’s definitely special being local,” Stephen Whitney said. “You grow up watching it. You know how big it is. Everyone knows how special it is.”

Just how special?

How about a comparison with Team USA’s gold medal at the recently completed World Junior Tournament? Kreider enjoyed both.

“This means everything to me,” Kreider said. “I grew up watching this. When I got my turn with the Pot, I took it immediately to my Mom. It’s an absolutely amazing feeling.

“It’s right up there with winning the gold at the World Junior Tournament.

“I wouldn’t say that the World Junior Tournament win doesn’t strike close to home, but for me growing up in the area, this was a really, really important tournament to me. This was one of the big factors when I was choosing which college I wanted to go to. I wanted to play in the Beanpot.”

by **claver2010** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:46 am

Picture of the drunk grabbing the official:

He did this after Gibbons unleashed 4 years of frustration against that traffic cone's hackery.

by **Puerto Rico Eagle** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:01 am

claver2010 {l Wrote}:Picture of the drunk grabbing the official:

He did this after Gibbons unleashed 4 years of frustration against that traffic cone's hackery.

This is great...Gibbons absolutely lit up Gryba....He had no idea how to react

by **bcsoxfan12** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:22 pm

We came out a little flat, but piled it on. Muse let a few in, but he deserved the MVP + Goalie of the tourney. He’s so on his game right now !!!! Kreider is playing at the level that we hoped he would, Sneep is a stud blasting the puck, “The Whitney’s” Atkinson Smith hell I could go on and on but I really can’t right now. They really deserved to hoist the title last night…..students were awesome and loud !!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe how loud and how much you could hear them on the NESN broadcast.Between the Super Bowl Sunday and the Beanpot yesterday my liver and head can’t take anymore excitement !!!! I might have woke up with a pounding headache (kinda felt like the screaming eagles we marching around in my head) but I’m so happy as a fan for our guys!!! :angrychicken

by **pick6pedro** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:32 pm

bcsoxfan12 {l Wrote}:We came out a little flat, but piled it on. Muse let a few in, but he deserved the MVP + Goalie of the tourney. He’s so on his game right now !!!! Kreider is playing at the level that we hoped he would, Sneep is a stud blasting the puck, “The Whitney’s” Atkinson Smith hell I could go on and on but I really can’t right now. They really deserved to hoist the title last night…..students were awesome and loud !!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe how loud and how much you could hear them on the NESN broadcast.Between the Super Bowl Sunday and the Beanpot yesterday my liver and head can’t take anymore excitement !!!! I might have woke up with a pounding headache (kinda felt like the screaming eagles we marching around in my head) but I’m so happy as a fan for our guys!!!

A fellow alum leaned over to me as the game was wrapping up and said, "you know what the worst thing about this is? we don't have class tomorrow." :cry:

by **2008Eagle** on Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:22 pm

The last 5 minutes or so of the game were heart attack-inducing. The last time I felt like that over a hockey game was probably the OT win over Miami in 2008.