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...thing I really want," he said, "is to see the seniors win. That Tommy Murray has worked his heart out, he's been the best captain we've ever had. No one should go through the program for four years with us and miss the experience of winning the Beanpot. It hasn't happened...
...better cause to celebrate than Tommy Murray and Ricky Benson. No college hockey player in Boston, no matter how many points he piles up, no matter how many game-winning goals he tallies against Clarkson or Colgate or St. Lawrence, feels his career is complete without at least one Beanpot. Three times, for Murray and Benson, February had come and gone. Once they had reached the finals, only to crawl before B.U.; two surprisingly competitive first-night losses supplied little solace...
There is certainly a case for The Beanpot as the top sports event in the city. Nothing else, not the Celtics, not the Bruins, not the Red Sox or Patriots, not even The Game matches the action of the Beanpot final, year after year. The Celtics and Bruins can miss the playoffs, the Sox and Pats can fall flat and be out of it midway through the season. But throw four college hockey teams together before the inevitable packed house twice every February, and grown men cry, babies shriek, mature college students from prestigious Eastern institutions scream, swept...
...once-a-year night. It's The Party, The Prom, The Carnival, The Game, The Event. It's the Dancing-in-the-Streets Night, the Crying-in-your-Beer Night, the night when, for six hours, Boston becomes a hockey jamboree. It's The Beanpot. See you on the T, sports...
...hockey, Beanpot Finals v. Boston College, Boston Garden, 8 p.m., WHRB...