Rest Factor In Beanpots past the Harvard Crimson had a legitimate gripe to claim the role of underdog. Hockey East, the conference of the other three Beanpot schools — BC, BU and Northeastern — allowed those teams to play only one game the weekend before each Beanpot Monday. Harvard’s conference, the ECAC, wasn’t as generous. … Read more
The Beanpot, now past half a century old, continues to capture the imaginations of hockey fans in Boston, around New England and nationwide.
With a limited slate of games for top-rated teams, Harvard maintained its grip on No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll despite not having played a game for two weeks. Harvard gets underway again this Tuesday, playing cross-town foe Boston College. Harvard will face the top teams from the CHA this weekend, … Read more
Idle Harvard, with a 14-1 record, tightened its grip on the No. 1 spot in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll, and moved into the top spot in the PairWise Ranking (PWR) as well, as the next two teams both lost one game on Friday night. No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth split a weekend series with … Read more
Harvard held onto the top spot of the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll this week with 11 first-place votes, earning two wins on the weekend, 6-0 over Yale and 5-2 over No. 8 Princeton. The Crimson enter into their exam break, with the next games coming on January 28. The nation’s No. 2 team, Minnesota-Duluth, … Read more
In the first USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll of 2003, Harvard remained in first place, just six points over No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth. There was only limited action this weekend, with only one game being played among the top three teams, as No. 1 Harvard cruised past Wayne State by a 9-0 margin. Minnesota-Duluth and No. … Read more
Harvard used a convincing 7-1 victory over No. 7 New Hampshire, in which the Crimson dominated the Wildcats in shots 50 to 3, to solidify its hold on the top spot in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. Harvard’s record improves to 11-1-0, outscoring opponents 72 to 12 in those 12 games. The Crimson … Read more
Despite two wins this weekend, Harvard saw its lead over second-place Minnesota-Duluth erode ever so slightly in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. After a solid 4-0 win over Northeastern, Harvard squeaked out a 2-1 overtime win over No. 6 Providence on Sunday. Harvard received nine of 15 first-place votes, yet leads No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth … Read more
While Minnesota-Duluth got two huge wins against traditional rival Minnesota this weekend, the big winner was Harvard, which climbed to No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. The Crimson captured ten of the fifteen first-place votes after a 3-2 win over No. 8 Brown, and ascended to the top with the win, … Read more
After a thrilling weekend between top teams, Minnesota emerged with two wins and first-place in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. With a 5-3 victory over No. 6 Brown and a 4-3 win over No. 2 Harvard, Minnesota ascended into the top spot. The Gophers earned 14 of 15 first-place votes. Harvard delivered an … Read more
After being voted first in the nation last week, Boston College made a statement that it deserved the ranking, remaining undefeated with a convincing 6-1 victory over No. 14 Providence last Tuesday, and a taut 3-2 win over cross-town rival Boston University on Friday. The Eagles captured 37 of 40 first-place votes and 596 points … Read more
Here comes Harvard! The Crimson got the 2002-2003 season underway in grand style, outscoring opponents 22-2 in two weekend wins. And while one opponent was Vermont, in the ECAC cellar so far this season, the other was No. 4 Dartmouth, which the Crimson handily defeated by a 9-2 margin. Harvard was happy to have last-year … Read more
They starred at Harvard, won Hobey Baker Awards, and played in the Olympics. Now the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame beckons.
After last year’s end-of-the-season run, many wonder what other tricks are in the Crimson’s back pocket? A mediocre regular season was followed by one heart-stopping show after another as Harvard battled and fought its way back to the NCAA tournament — a place where they enjoyed so much success during the late ’80s and early … Read more
Former Minnesota coach Doug Woog, former Hobey Baker Award winners Mark and Scott Fusco, Joe Riley have been inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, located in Eveleth, Minn. The formal induction ceremony will take place Wednesday, Dec. 4. In his 14-year coaching career with the Golden Gophers, Woog guided Minnesota to an … Read more
The hiring of an assistant coach isn’t often big news, but one the coach of one prominent Beanpot school leaves for another one, it makes waves.
Harvard assistant coach Ron Rolston is leaving to take the same position at Boston College. Rolston replaces Scott Paluch who last month accepted the head coaching position at his alma mater, Bowling Green. Rolston joins the Eagles after spending three years as the top assistant on the Harvard staff under Mark Mazzoleni. The Crimson this … Read more
Rankings, schmankings. Though some may cry foul about the seedings and the placements, one thing is for sure: in the East Regional most of the bids were earned the old-fashioned way. In this era of objective criteria — of coaches and administrators huddled about a computer, or deciphering rows of text to decide the field … Read more
Insight on the weekend that was, and what’s ahead for Cornell and Harvard.
For the first time since the inception of the 12-team bracket in 1988, the Division I NCAA tournament has a strict regionalized arrangement. Years ago, college hockey put in a series of bracketing rules in order to get away from regionalization, mandating, for example, that the bottom two seeds in each region should flip-flop with … Read more