It doesn’t get any lower

It simply can’t get any worse than what Terrier hockey fans witnessed last Wednesday. The woeful hockey team was out-classed, out-hustled, out-hit, and perhaps least importantly, out-scored. They were out- everything.

It got so bad, that some shlum in Section 9 started dozing off. It got so bad, that even Sasquatch came down the isle in a sarcastic fashion, singing, “We want sixth place.” It got so bad, that half the arena didn’t even bother to show up, perhaps already knowing of the pathetic effort about to be put forth. And worse of all, it got so bad, that the girl only known in Section 8 as “Durocher’s Daughter” was videotaping the game above the UMass bench. She was not in her normal spot in the press box, a space in proximity to the Section 8 on-lookers.

BU hockey just isn’t the same. It’s been on a downward spiral ever since Ricky last stood atop the ivory tower between the pipes. We’ve only had a bunch of over-achieving teams since then. And ever since Alan Gardenhoser and the rest of the pathetic athletic administration put the clamp down on the raucous atmosphere, BU hockey changed for the worse.

I’m no hockey expert, but it seems like the product on the ice is terrible. We should be playing a physical brand of hockey, using our size and small rink to pummel the opponents. Our guys don’t hit; they get hit. And we have no one who can score. We flat out stink. There is no energy on the ice or in the stands.

Even the 4-3 win that the Terriers filched from Northeastern can’t save this year, or this stretch of mediocrity, for that matter. Perhaps Parker should stop being praised as “God”.

I hope the Freep isn’t afraid to print this harangue. It’s about dang time that someone steps up and blasts this hockey team and the athletic department that oversees it. Boo.

Mark Rogoff COM ’03

Frustrated Season Ticket Holder (617) 869-5862 MarkR90913@aol.com