While most sports fans have been focused on the men's basketball team's success or hoping that the men's hockey team would finally win another Beanpot, the women's hockey team slipped under the radar. While they are not quite as good as last year due to the loss of outstanding senior goalie Florence Schelling, they have been very hot recently.
The No. 10 women’s hockey team found a little bit of Beanpot magic Tuesday night and took its second consecutive tournament championship over a No. 2 Boston College team it had failed to defeat in all three previous meetings this season. The 4-3 Husky win brought the hardware to Huntington Avenue for the 16th time in tournament history.
After a week of built up anticipation and excitement, Northeastern’s hopes of ending the school’s quarter-century long Beanpot drought came up short Monday night at TD Garden.
A near comeback from a 4-1 deficit left the students who made up red and black sea in the upper level of TD Garden on the edge of their seats as the men’s hockey team battled Boston College for the Beanpot title Monday night. But the Huskies and their fans will have to wait until 2014 for another chance to be the best in Boston.
After 25 years without a Beanpot win, Northeastern will have to wait one more as the Huskies fell to the Boston College Eagles, 6-3, in the Beanpot final Monday night.
The fourth time was the charm for the Northeastern versus Boston University game this season as the Huskies finally defeated their Hockey East rival 4-1 in the women’s Beanpot semifinal Tuesday night.
The Huskies are heading to their third Beanpot final in five years, as they bemoan the quarter century mark of the last Northeastern win in the historic Boston college hockey tournament.
When Jim Madigan talks about his players’ emotions surrounding the Beanpot Tournament, he doesn’t have to try very hard to put himself in their skates; he’s been there. The Northeastern men’s hockey head coach knows exactly what it feels like to skate onto the Garden ice for the first time, to hear the roaring student sections and understand the magnitude of the first two Mondays of February in Boston.
Not too long ago, I mentioned what could make this season a measured success for the men’s hockey team. There were two clear scenarios covered: Making it to the TD Garden for the Hockey East semifinals, and/or winning the Beanpot. Both were daunting tasks given the schedules at hand, but since the Huskies would likely have to go through both Boston University and Boston College to win the Beanpot, their odds dipped heavily with bias below the clean 25 percent chance each of the four Beanpot teams receives going into the tournament.
