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Favorite Hockey Traditions

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JS Tigers said:
But they are not playing, "For Boston". At least I'm guessing they aren't.;)
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Well, duh. * Boston. Go to the pahk in Woostah and beat up some smaht kids and then go have a grinda and a tawnic at the bah and have a wicked pissah for all I care. ;)
 
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Brenthoven said:
Well, duh. * Boston. Go to the pahk in Woostah and beat up some smaht kids and then go have a grinda and a tawnic at the bah and have a wicked pissah for all I care. ;)
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I like hangin out at that wicked owwesome bah near the hahbah.

Better than the snooow in Minnisoooda. Doncha knooow?;)
 
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PcFriars13 said:
Alright, so somebody here at PC wrote an article about how embarrassed she was by the student section crowd because we were too "negative", "drunk" and "rowdy" because we screamed things like "sucks!" and "safety school!" against UMass. Before I write my response letter to the editor, I was wondering what some of your favorite traditions are at games. Like for example, at UMaine, they yell out "Loser" and "Big Deal" when the opposing starters are lined up. Any creative goal chants, anti-opposing team chants, etc would be helpful. Thanks!

(http://www.thecowl.com/commentary/freshman-finds-friar-fanatics-annoying-and-embarrasing-1.1746118 is the column for anyone interested)
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I know you asked for favorite traditions, rather than least favorite ones, but since you started out by mentioning some complaints those are what my mind immediately wandered to.

I remember the first time I saw a game at RPI sometime in the early 90s and was a bit surprised at one of their traditions, which was to follow the announcement of the visiting team's starting lineup with a "you suck" for each player. At the time I did not note anything comparable at any Hockey East schools (although Maine came closest).

What was particularly surprising about it was that it was the entire arena-- not just students-- and that many of them appeared to be people of middling age, and even some families where mother, father and children about 10 were all chanting in unison "you suck" following the name of a person whom they had never met nor seen before that moment. This was also before "you suck" was considered language appropriate for the dinner table, coming before the popularity of South Park (one of my favorite shows).

I see nothing wrong in crowds deriding the opposition, and I'm no stranger to foul language, but it seemed only fair to me to allow the game itself to contextualize one's comments and traditions. Insisting that a goaltender sucks when he's playing a shutout isn't really sensible. Yelling out that a player sucks after he scores a hat trick is also pretty ridiculous. I'd have thought it was no less silly to insist that the opposing team's lineup sucks before the puck has even been dropped.

That said, I've always thought the goaltender-taunting at Harvard back in the day was some of the best. I'm hoping to see them at Bright this season, I'll be curious to see if they've kept it up.
 
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Jon said:
I tore into that nitwit. Class of 1999 and I'm ashamed she's trying to speak for us.
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Really? The article is labeled "commentary" and is written entirely in the first person, so it sounds to me like she's speaking for herself.

As for how you "tore into" her, all you did was suggest that Friar fans' behavior was less egregious than that of UMass fans-- as if it was somehow unfair to expect any group of students to rise to a standard of behavior different from any other group. Assuming the author is expressing an honest opinion, I'd conclude that if she were a UMass-Amherst student she'd be just as displeased with the behavior of that team's fans. What connection need there be between how UMass fans behave in their rink and how Friar fans behave in their own?

(It's been years since I've been down to Schneider, so I don't know what crowds are like now, but I have to admit I didn't think PC fans were particularly profane or particularly rowdy, which given your mention of UMA is perhaps how you feel about it as well. From your perspective, it's an error in the author's judgment to disapprove of PC fans' behavior at games because she hasn't seen a representative sample of arenas. However, I'd suggest it's a legitimate position to take that such behavior isn't particularly desireable, even if it is common elsewhere. It is possible to have imaginative, emotional, interesting, and enjoyable crowd traditions-- positive or negative-- while minimizing profanity and maintaining good humor. It hardly seems unreasonable to me to encourage such behavior, and for a student to say that they don't care to attend games if the behavior of fans does not meet their liking.

It's not a choice that you or I would make; I might groan or grimace at chants that are too uninteresting or too explicit (or both) but I wouldn't stay away from a game because of them.
 
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Not having been to BC in recent years, I never noticed that they entered the ice in numerical order (except for the starting goaltender) - that is cool. I would have expected a BU fan to say that it was not possible for a BC player to know how to do!!
The Maine players have lined up in numerical order for years - I don't recall when that started.

As for traditions, as a Maine fan I am most proud of two "traditions" -

The fact that the student section can get rowdy and have a great time without once using "su**" in their repitoire of cheers.

The fans allow the singing of the National Anthem without interrupting the singer with cheers inserted into the song - they do, at times, begin cheering before "..of the brave" in anticipation of a huge game such as the recent North Dakota series.

The UNH fish has been a bone of contention for me - it should be whistled for "delay of game" - my opinion only.

I cannot remember which arena it occurs in - perhaps Minny - where, after a goal, the announcer says "(insert team name) goal scored by number __" and the crowd yells along with the announcer "name of player" and he continues "assisted by number __" and they chime in "name of player".

The naked 5 at Maine is pretty awesome.....it consists of 5 shirtless students each with a letter painted on their chests spelling out "MAINE". After a goal, they run around the concourse high fiving the crowd.
 
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Favorite RPI traditions.... aside from "you suck" that as previously mentioned....

Hawaii Five-O Guy. This being a tradition is a little bit of a stretch, I know, but he's practically an institution at HFH. There's one person in the stands that commonly asks for the theme from Hawaii Five-O to be played, and when it is, he takes out an oar and starts rowing from the stands.

(Visiting team) penalty on #__, _____ ______. (Crowd: SUCKS!) He receives two minutes for (Crowd: SUCKING!). Time of the penalty, __:__. Once the scoreboard operator "mistakenly" put Sucking up for the penalty.

The current Alma Mater tradition, where instead of the band playing it from their common perch (either the stage behind the visiting goal or now section 13), they will come down to the aisle between the student sections and play it from there.

John G, the tradition you speak of where you can't remember who does it occurs at Cornell.
 
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john g said:
I cannot remember which arena it occurs in - perhaps Minny - where, after a goal, the announcer says "(insert team name) goal scored by number __" and the crowd yells along with the announcer "name of player" and he continues "assisted by number __" and they chime in "name of player".
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Maybe MN does it too but I know they do this at Cornell.

BC does have a few other traditions that haven't been mentioned, like the NYY they aren't allowed to have long hair or facial hair.
 
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Federal League said:
The student section at the BU end of the ice points at BU's goalie and yells "Goalie!" Then the student section at the visitor end of the ice points at the visiting goal and yells "Sieve!" And repeat several times in call-and-answer fashion.
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Maine's done this as long as I've been there. Even funnier is when a puck goes out of play and a fan makes a clean catch we do the chant with him/her as the "goalie".
More for Maine:
-Not being able to spell. "1...2...3 M-A-I-N-E Goooo Blue! 3...2...1 B-L-U-E Goooo Maine!"
-The Stein Song. I don't know if the school song can count as a favorite tradition, but note that it A) isn't the fight song B) "Drink! Drink! Drink!" and C) was #1 on the pop charts in the '30s (how many school songs can say that)

I don't know what all the fuss is over the NU student section. The only time I saw them it was free vuvuzala night. It was awful. Though I realize that's probably not a representative sample.

I really liked the non-student fans in Madison. Though it was hard to tell who was an unofficial mascot and who wasn't because it was Halloween.

The naked 5 at Maine is pretty awesome
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Done it. Against Merrimack I think. Pretty exhausting.
 
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J.D. said:
3. Stick salute
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This.

One of my all time memories of my four years at BC (aside from the championships :D) was last year in the last RS game at Conte. It was over Spring Break and it was only 1 section all the way up of students. There was no band but after the shaking of the hands, TonytheTiger starts playing the Alma Mater on his trumpet by himself. The team hears him from all the way up and waits for him to finish and gives the stick salute.

Another stick salute moment was '06 at Wisco, the result sucked but it said a lot about the school/team/coach I support.
 
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one of my favorites is one of the times you can go to the dog house and watch "The chase" set to the ben e hill theme song...i don't know why but it gives me a laugh each time...

One of my other favorites was actually a high school team in ct (i forget which one) but they used to have the goalie line up at the blue line as the rest of the team gathered around the net....the goalie would then back himself into the net and get swarmed by the rest of the team...just a pretty cool sight to see

one of my other favorite traditions as an MC fan and student back in 2002-2006 was attempting to get the rest of the student section to start any type of chant and watching the confusion that took place after that....ahhh memories (thank god it's improved)
 
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Oh man, there are so many great traditions in college hockey to pick from, this is tough.

If I'm going to pick from my school's chants, cheers and traditions, I'll have to separate them out into old and new.

Old:
1 -The pep band playing Proud Mary after warmups are over. It gets played about 4 times faster than Tina Turner sang it, and to me it says "IT'S TIME FOR HOCKEY NOW"

2- Gotta go with the classic KNIGHTS during the anthem. I know a lot of people disapprove of shouting/chanting anything during the Star Spangled Banner and while I understand your viewpoint, I respectfully disagree.

New(er):
1- The 300 cheer, when it first started like five years ago, was done situationally toward the end of games when we had the lead, I liked it especially when we took a late, potentially critical penalty. Now it's done on a schedule (10min left in the 3rd) which is lame, but it's still an awesome cheer when you get 1000 male voices behind it, because let's face it... Clarkson doesn't have many of the ladies.

One person leads the cheer: "This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where THEY DIE! Clarkson, what is your profession?!?!"
Student section: "AROO! AROO! AROO!"

2-The Bonesaw Brigade. It makes no sense. Students started it just for some energy and it exploded. I'd try to give you the history here, but it's easier to just go to http://www.bonesaw.org and see for yourself. The best part about it was how the players embraced it from 2006-2008 during our two NCAA appearance years. Every time they scored a goal they'd fly into the student section glass miming cutting off their arm with their hand or stick, it was great. I'd like to see that kind of enthusiasm again.
 
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Notre Dame student section has some good ones, which some think of as poor sportsmanship, but I think are hilarious.
After ND scores a goal and the goal is announced they jeer the visiting goaltender. Say the guy's name is Mike Smith, they point to the goalie while chanting: "Smith. Smith. Smith. Smith. Smith. YOU SUCK! It's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault! Loooooosssser....." When ND players are let out of the box and announced as "Notre Dame, full strength" The crowd yells "We always were!" and when it's "[Opposing team], full strength" it's "Who cares! They still suck! Especially that guy!"
I also love the stick salute after games.
When a puck goes into the stands the kids cheer "Hold it up! Hold it up!" and as soon as the puck goes up they cheer "Give it to a kid! Give it to a kid!", so whoever got the puck runs and finds the nearest kid to give the puck to. Usually makes some kid's night.
 
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StillaLeafsFan said:
When ND players are let out of the box and announced as "Notre Dame, full strength" The crowd yells "We always were!" and when it's "[Opposing team], full strength" it's "Who cares! They still suck! Especially that guy!"
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Hahaha, I love yelling "That's debatable" after an announcer does that.
 
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Some favorities....

At the beginning of warmups when the players just skate around their zone - we all well "YOU SUCK!" to each player as they go by.

We also do the "YOU SUCK!" for the USA players, and "YOU SUCK, EH!" for Canadians for the starting lineups. Exception for Air Force and Army - "THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER". Exception for the 1 time UAH came to RIT - "Y'ALL SUCK" and "Y'ALL SUCK, EH!".

First stoppage of the 1st and 3rd period where the opposing goalie is on our end - It's yelled out "What's his name" - LOSER. "What's his real name" .... "Hi. Welcome to the Red Light Zone, ....." rant.
 
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