Paul Gentile <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>What's up with tonight's Boston games?
>Harvard @ B.U.
>B.C. @ Northeastern.
>Is this some sort of organized pre-season for next February's Beanpot?
 
There are 2 answers to this.  One is that Harvard usually plays either BC
or BU for one of their independent games during the year anyway, besides
the Beanpot, played either this early or in early January (based on recent
history.)  This year the game just happens to coincide with the first round
Beanpot matchup against BU.  The BC at NU game was originally scheduled
as the 2nd game of a home-and-home series on Oct. 25-26, but that series
was changed so that BC and NU could schedule non-conference games against
Michigan State (MSU needed matchups with the demise of UIC, I suppose.)
The replacement of the Oct. 25 NU at BC game IS the first round Beanpot
game, which is considered a league game this year due to this schedule
modification.  The Oct. 26 game had to be moved somewhere on the schedule,
and the pre-Thanksgiving midweek slot was available.  Thus, tonight's
Hockey East game between BC and NU.
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Rick McAdoo                        [log in to unmask]
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