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...Hockey at Beanpot Consolation (Fleet Center...
...Harvard men's hockey team, coming off a Beanpot first-round game that featured two strong initial periods followed by a disastrous finale, put that unfortunate ending behind them and played a solid, aggressive game last night...
Harvard definitely stepped up its physical play last night. Whether this was an effort to compete with a Hockey East team or because it was the Beanpot and the adrenalin on both sides was pumping is irrelevant--the fact remains that both teams went at each others throats from the opening buzzer. The ice was literally strewn with bodies and sticks throughout the game...
Perhaps the band didn't do any renditions of the traditional Crimson tune because there was not even close to that number of fans at the Beanpot. The crowd of 16,574 was dominated by BU jerseys screaming and cheering their team on. There wasn't even a single Harvard jersey apparent in the crowd...
...Beanpot has always remained one of the top sporting events in Boston and a pride of Harvard sports. Hopefully for the team, the alarming decline of Harvard fans is more a reflection of this season's sub-500 record, and not of a growing apathy toward Harvard sports...