This year, there are eight juniors -- as of now, that is: Joe DiPenta, Colin Sheen, Carl Corazzini, Scott Perry, Nick Gillis, Russ Bartlett, Bobby Weston, Juha Vuori, and Keith Emery.
#3: DiPenta Joe broke his ankle this summer, but he only missed one game. Anyway, he's been drafted by the Panthers, who actually managed to beat the Flyers the other day. Wow. More on Joe later.
#7: Sheen He has a pretty good shot, when he gets a chance. In case you couldn't tell, I'm updating stuff (finally!), but it's slow-going, so there will be more when I get a chance.
#8: Corazzini Carl once went on a tear once about the US Olympic Women's Hockey team member who was bigger than he was. But then, he seems to have somehting to say about everyone and everything concerning the team, if you can pry him away from his bowl of Golden Grahams, which I once inadvertently did. I finished them off one night (they're the best after-dinner cereal here), and he was in the dining hall along with someone else, probably Bartlett. So he went over to get some cereal...and his shoulders slumped, and he stood there staring at the empty Golden Grahams dispenser. And he wandered around the kitchen area of the dining hall, looking for something to eat. And he failed. He left without anything else. Sorry aboot that!
#9: Perry Also known as "SKINNY!" by some, he has these gorgeous eyes. The problem is, you never get a chance to see them because he's usually wearing a hat with the brim pulled down to his nose. It's highly amusing to watch Tumbleweed do her "Skinny in a hat" impersonation, in which she walks into walls, saying, "Damn!" every time. We're all still trying to figure out how he can see where he's going, don'cha know. Also, he's from Dorchester (pronounced "Dou-steh"). Now, Dousteh is, for the most part, the slums of Massachusetts. So we used to joke about Skinny talking like, "Yo, yo, representin' Dousteh." Then we saw him one night at dinner, and although he didn't say "yo, yo," he was representin'. We almost choked on our lousy pasta laughing after he walked away. But this year, Skin-nay! takes home the title of "Cutest BU Hockey Player", as awarded by my 12-year-old sister, the middle school queen of taste.
#12: Gillis NICKY ;~) Gillis also drives a Jeep, but it's red and he can park it. However, his Jeep is referred to as "the Sexmobile." And we swear the boy only exists in three places: his room, his car, and the arena. He teleports to get from one to another, because those are the only three places he has been seen. (Well, we haven't seen him in his room, but you figure he's gotta sleep somewhere...) This little theory came from the dememted imagination of Tumbleweed, who was "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the world of BU hockey," according to her. He's also the 1998 Beanpot hero, scoring the winning goal in overtime against Harvard.
#14: Bartlett Russ is tied for most points on the team, and has been doing better than I thought. For a few games there, I was wondering what happened to the Russ Bartlett we had playing last year. Fortuneately, his playing has picked up considerably.
#22: Vuori Juha is THE Crazy Finnish hockey player. He took a shot at the ref last year, which prompted me to say, "Crazy Finnish hockey player! Don't you know we don't hit our refs in this country?!?" The nickname stuck. And that's YOO-ha VWO-ree to you, mister!
#26: Emery He's another one with a red Jeep, so unsuspecting people may get it confused with the Sexmobile the first few times they see it. This year, he's back on defense, which is good. We need players there, though not as badly as people suspected we would. It's nice to see him getting ice time this year, too.
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