The 2011 Beanpot final featured players from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan, New York, Florida, and four Canadian provinces, all playing as hard as the next for local bragging rights, in a game that became an instant classic between Boston College and Northeastern.
But the game also featured two players born and raised in Boston itself - BC’s brothers Jimmy and Kevin Hayes.
The Beanpot is impossible to think about or talk about without veering into nostalgia: the endless retellings of the story of the Blizzard of ‘78; fans’ stories of waiting for the T with others from their hometown, heading to the Garden to root on local stars who made it to the next level; grainy highlight reels of historic triumphs.