There still seems to be some confusion on this, so...
What Sean Pickett originally posted is correct. The semifinal
pairings for the Beanpot are already predetermined "forever", I guess
you'd say. There is a three year rotation, and each team will play a
first round game against each of the other three teams every three
years. So what you have is:
1995 NU-BU, BC-Harvard
1996 BC-BU, NU-Harvard
1997 BC-NU, BU-Harvard
1998 NU-BU, BC-Harvard
and so on.
It has nothing to do with anything else, including the teams' finishes
in the Beanpot the prior season, the teams' records this season, etc.
As for which game is first and which is second, I do not know how that
is determined.
BEANPOT HISTORY TRIVIA
BTW, in the late 1970s, it was strongly rumored that Northeastern was
going to pull out of the Beanpot. The Huskies had never won a Beanpot
since the tournament's inception in 1952, and NU alumni were getting
fed up with the way the team constantly looked bad year after year.
This may well have happened if not for a guy named Wayne Turner, who
scored an overtime goal in a game against BC to give NU its first
Beanpot championship in 1980...the 28th time it had been held.
The Huskies would go on to post a record of 7-20-0 in that season, and
5-16-0 in the then 17-team ECAC, the second worst in the conference.
But history had been made. NU would go on to win more Beanpots than
any other school during the 1980s, 4, with additional triumphs in
1984, 1985, and 1988 (hurray!). The 1980 win is credited with having
given NU the sudden recruiting boost that enabled them to win the
1981-82 ECAC championship and gain a berth in the NC$$ final four for
the first and only time ever, after years and years of mediocrity. It
certainly changed the face of Boston college hockey forever.
The school that was rumored to be in the running to replace NU was
UNH. If not for Wayne Turner's goal, the Beanpot may have ceased to
be an all-Boston event years ago.
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93
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