Jimmy Hayes was a uniquely BC icon

Set Number: X84013 TK1 R3 F95 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…