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This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

  • Never ever. These are young students, not pros.

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Only when a player does something grossly inappropriate/unsportsmanlike.

    Votes: 21 37.5%

  • Any time the other team has the puck ... but never your own boys.

    Votes: 16 28.6%

  • Perceived sloppiness, stupidity or lack of effort warrants a negative reaction.

    Votes: 3 5.4%

  • Whenever you like: you paid for your ticket and - in part - their scholarships.

    Votes: 10 17.9%

  • Unsure/other (please elaborate below).

    Votes: 5 8.9%
  • Total voters
    56
  • Poll closed .
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ECACHL writer

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Rabid readership: to what extent is it acceptable/appropriate to boo a collegiate student-athlete, specifically a D-I hockey player?
 
Re: This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

Whenever your team is playing Michigan state university and sparty has the puck...:p
 
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alslammerz said:
Serious question- why is this? I would love to know the story behind this as it is the first I've ever heard of it.
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H****y had committed to RPI to enter in the 06-07 season. (He would have been a senior this year.) About three minutes after Dan Fridgen was let go as the RPI coach, it was announced that he would go to Harvard after a year in the USHL. While he was within his rights to change at that point, the timing has never been explained. All Seth Appert has said is that he did not want players who did not want to play for RPI.

You can have him. I like Peter Merth, who Seth Appert signed after arriving, better.

I agree with GLM.
 
Re: This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

Ralph Baer said:
H****y had committed to RPI to enter in the 06-07 season. (He would have been a senior this year.) About three minutes after Dan Fridgen was let go as the RPI coach, it was announced that he would go to Harvard after a year in the USHL. While he was within his rights to change at that point, the timing has never been explained. All Seth Appert has said is that he did not want players who did not want to play for RPI.

You can have him. I like Peter Merth, who Seth Appert signed after arriving, better.

I agree with GLM.
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Oh, okay then.
 
Re: This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

I'll give my own example of when Colgate students booed a hockey player.

Last February, in the home season finale for Colgate vs. RPI, late in the 2nd period RPI's Garret Vassel slammed Colgate's Jason Williams into the boards. He didn't get up, and had to be taken off the ice on a stretcher. Vassel was given a 5-minute major, and when his penalty expired and was back on the ice, all the Colgate students erupted with loud booing and chants of "12 you suck!" (he wears #12) unless he was on the bench.

I don't want this story to sound offensive to faithful RPI fans, but thankfully Williams did not suffer a serious injury, though the Colgate fans in the rink at the time thought so. Luckily Colgate was able to defeat RPI 2-1 in overtime, causing the crowd to erupt in a frenzy and forget about the Williams "injury".
 
Re: This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

ECACHL writer said:
Rabid readership: to what extent is it acceptable/appropriate to boo a collegiate student-athlete, specifically a D-I hockey player?
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Whenever said player is wearing a horrid Green/Gold/White combo uniform, in any building, at any time, that says Clarkson on it!!!! (Sorry Vic)
 
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critsports said:
Whenever said player is wearing a horrid Green/Gold/White combo uniform, in any building, at any time, that says Clarkson on it!!!! (Sorry Vic)
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And here's back at whatever shade of Red it is (i.e. SLU, RPI and Cornell) :) .
 
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I don't want this to turn into a Chris Huxley thread, but I do want to state that not all RPI fans fault Huxley for his decision to go to Harvard.

If he decided that Harvard with Ted Donato was a better fit for him than RPI with a coach to be named later (if I recall correctly, there was a significant time lapse between the time when Dan Fridgen was let go and the time Seth Appert was hired), I cannot find it within me to boo him for making that decision.
 
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Hopkinja said:
What, no Colgate? Or are they and Harvard, not red enough? :D
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I am red-green colorblind, so I really shouldn't get into this discussion :D, but I always thought my birthstone, a garnet, which I assume is also Union's color, is some kind of red too.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I am red-green colorblind, so I really shouldn't get into this discussion :D, but I always thought my birthstone, a garnet, which I assume is also Union's color, is some kind of red too.
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There's no question on my birthstone which color I support. The ruby.
 
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Re: This Week in ECAC Hockey Poll: Booing Players

An odd question at this level. This is not pee-wee or even high school. These are men playing a sport.

I'm also a first-amendment supporter. Booing if you are displeased, or to rag on the opposition is American as the Boston Tea Party.

I nearly always save my boos for the opposition or the refs, but occasionally a player on the home team takes a dangerous action, gets out of control, demonstrates an extreme lack of effort, or otherwise merits a reprimand. I don't boo my teams simply because I'm disappointed in their play -- we fans have a job to do -- supporting our team, as long as they are making an effort.
 
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