A Monday BU-ffet of news

Much to cover today, Terrier fans…Last week, Joe DiPenta re-upped with the NHL champion Anaheim Ducks and also brought the Cup to Halifax and his hometown of Cole Harbour to share with family and friends. Joe and Stanley made a well-received hospital visit, too. The Nova Scotia native, who played for BU during the 97-98 and 98-99 seasons, became the sixth Terrier to hoist the Cup (video) ...

Terrier goalie coach Mike Geragosian has had a new scholarship endowed in his name by an anonymous donor. The $500,000 scholarship fund is for goalies on BU Women’s Ice Hockey team, now entering its third varsity season under former BU netminder Brian Durocher…Durocher shared goaltending duties with Jim Craig on the 1977-78 Terrier NCAA championship team (30-2) that defeated BC, 5-3, in the only head-to-head national title game between the Comm. Ave. rivals (page122). The team's 30th anniversary will be celebrated during the upcoming season. We’ll post details when they become available…

A DVD of BU’s most recent Terrier NCAA championship game win, the 1995 6-2 victory against Maine (page 123), is available from Amazon.com, according to one of our readers. The 8-7 triple overtime loss to Northern Michigan in the 1991 final also is available on DVD...

2008 recruit David Warsofsky (3/14 entry) is in Slovakia with the U.S. Under 18 Select team that begins the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament tomorrow with a game against Russia. He scored the game-tying goal late in yesterday’s exhibition game against the Czechs, eventually won by the U.S. Warsofsky, USHR’s Prep Defenseman of the Year for 2006-2007 and a standout at the recent Select 17 national tournament, will play for John Hynes’ NTDP U18 team next season. The U18s visit Agganis Arena for a Dec. 8 exhibition against the Terriers. In an interview just before leaving for Europe, Warsofsky noted he’ll be joined in Ann Arbor next year by his “best friend” and Cushing teammate, Ryan Bourque who will skate for the U17s...

Meanwhile, Kit Sitterley, a member of USA U17 Select team, playing later this month in the Five Nations’ tournament in the Czech Republic, has identified BU as a team that has shown interest in him for 2009. Sitterley, a 5-10 left wing who rang up six goals in the Select 16 Festival in June, hails from Mooresvill, N.C., and skates for Culver Military Academy, where incoming freshman Victor Saponari forward played (as did his 2008 recruiting target brother Vinny)...

Jason Lawrence continues to fill the nets in the Hub City Summer Pro league. The league’s top scorer, Jason buried it eight times this past week. Yes, it’s only summer hockey, but Terrier prospects for next season will markedly improve if he takes a step up from his 5-13-18 numbers of last year…

Two good reads from the NHL. First is piece from the Avalanche on its first two choices in June’s draft, incoming freshmen and roommates Kevin Shattenkirk and Colby Cohen. Then, reaching back in time, there’s the tale of how World Hockey Association forgot to order a trophy for its first championship team, which almost was left empty-handed. The article focuses on New England Whalers owner Howard Baldwin whose 1972-73 club was coached to the AVCO Cup title by former Terrier mentor Jack Kelley following his back-to-back NCAA championship teams of 70-71 and 71-72. Kelley wasn’t the only Terrier with three straight titles. BU All-American forward Jake Danby and all-star defenseman Ric Jordan played on all three winners. Another BU All-American, Mike Hyndman played part of the season for the Whalers.