Just a couple topics regarding my first Beanpot final: * Does Fitzie try to be The Show? The first period was marked by a couple power play goals by BU followed by power play goals by Northeastern. One could argue that the manpower situation was the single pivotal factor for most of the first period. And it seemed that Fitzgerald was making most of the calls. Fitzie does seem to be an active whistleblower; there are nights when I'd swear that he tosses more players out of faceoffs than all other HE refs combined. Most significant of all of these were the two penalties he gave to Wood and someone else after the NU goal to make it 3-1. I could see one penalty in that scenario but two? McGillis capitalized almost immediately on the 5-on-3 and then got a real softie by Noble to tie things temporarily. * Todd Reynolds yanks himself. Mike (Bud) Veisor started the game for Northeastern and was replaced with Reynolds at the start of the second. After a flurry of BU goals Reynolds made a beeline for the NU bench, yanking himself. After tearing off his mask he appeared to say something like "I can't stop anything!" From my vantage point Veisor did not appear pleased to be going back in. I can't recall any other time that a goalie gave himself the hook. I can imagine many head-strong coaches that would toss him back out there and say "*I* decide when you come out," even though Reynolds confidence was clearly shot at that point. * Why did Parker wait until little more than five minutes left to put in JP? With an 11-3 lead going into the third period, the time was ripe at the start of the third -- a suggestion first made by my eleven year old son. The BU fans started "JP" chants a few minutes into the period. But it wasn't until Noble got bowled over with less than six minutes left that JP got to enter the game. * I was sitting with a couple who was new to college hockey. I got them tuned into the BU "Sieve!" cheer, although I think that after BU's eleventh goal the blonde woman may have had to take a shoe off to keep the count straight. :-) I'm not sure, though, if I really got through to them in my explanations of the Sasquatch cheers and the delight BU fans take in his display of his hairy (furry, in fact!) body. As my son pointed out early in the game, Sasquatch won't be able to do his run around the promenade in the Fleet Center like he did in the Garden. DaveH HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.