I would like to comment on Mike Lipka’s article “Seniors say goodbye to solid four years in scarlet and white” (March 27, p.12). I have a problem with him saying the Boston University men’s hockey team “did not go down with much dignity.” He seems to be criticizing the team for committing penalties in the last 10 minutes of the game. When down by a large sum of goals, a team needs to show some signs of life. The team finally showed signs of life in the last 10 minutes of the game by playing physically. Some of the physicality deserved penalties, and some of it did not. Bryan Ewing’s charging penalty was by no means a penalty.

Also, criticizing David Van der Gulik for being in the penalty box during the last minute of his college career is ridiculous. He was getting pushed by a Boston College player — what does Lipka want him to do? He has to stick up for himself because this is hockey, and sometimes you have to fight back in hockey. BU actually showed self-control in the final minutes, when BC’s Mike Brennan punched Van der Gulik. The BU team could have started a fight, but they did not. The team did go down with dignity because they played hard until the last minute, as the team almost scored a goal in the closing seconds.

Timothy O’Connor CAS ’07