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The Bentley University Falcons were defeated 3-2 by the Northeastern University Huskies at the men’s hockey regular season opening of Matthews Arena.  The Falcons had two goals overturned by the officials.

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Former Boston College Eagle/current Los Vegas Wrangler (ECHL) Andrew Orpik scored his first professional point in his first professional game on Friday night.

BU split the net time between Kieran Millan (first two periods) and Adam Kraus (third period).  Both Terrier goalies (sadly) came up with big saves against USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program’s Under-18 team for a 3-2 win:

Full gallery: NTDP Under-18s at Boston University Terriers including their banner raising ceremony.

First set of brothers – Marian, Peter and Anton who played together on a line with the Quebec Nordiques once all three had escaped Czechoslovakia (Peter and Anton first; Marian a year later – oldest brother Vladimir did not leave). Peter now represents Slovakia in the European Parliament, while his sons play professional hockey in the United States.

Older son, Yan, currently plays for the Peoria Rivermen (AHL) while Paul is playing in his 200th NHL game tonight (prompting this post) for the Colorado Avalanche.

Anton also had a son, Thomas, play professional hockey for several years in Switzerland.

(Apologies for not using correct accent marks, but do not know how to make the marks that should be over the s, y and first t.)

Have gotten behind on blogging, but couldn’t just let this pass.  Have never forgotten the way he came back out, while still crying, to give sticks to some Canadian children following Russia’s loss to Canada at the 2007 World Juniors gold medal game in Leksand, Sweden.

Spent Thursday evening at “The Bog” for the South Shore Kings at the Bay State Breakers, a game that starred Greg Merrill (#5 in green). The Kings got extremely lucky and won in OT, but I’m sure the Breakers will take the league’s top spot away from them soon.