Good morning all -

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Thom Davis wrote:
>> You have to admit that the [Cornell fans] "UHN" chant was classic.
>
> For those of you who missed this, three UNH fans in the balcony above
> the Cornell section inadvertently (I hope) got their placards switched
> around, and the concentration of Cornell students in the seats below
> them picked up on this immediately and began chanting "UHN, UHN..." And,
> then when nothing happened to the placards, they began chanting "Learn
> how to spell, Learn how to spell...." I found it hard to believe that
> the three UNH fans with the "UHN" placards could not hear the Cornell
> chants, but a few minutes later they held up their "UHN" signs again,
> and this time the Cornell students really let them have it, which re-
> sulted in the UHN signs finally getting corrected. The game was tied
> 3-3 at the time, and easily could have gone either way. As embarrassing
> as this incident was for a UNH fan, I found it terribly amusing.

  Although I was sitting at the opposite end of the ice and didn't see
the signs in question, I have to wonder if they weren't an intentionally
subtle jab at the Maine (not Cornell) fans.  When UNH played in Orono
earlier in the season, a loud Maine fan held up a homemade sign reading
"UNH sucks" (on the front).  But on the *back*, out of sight from most
of the Alfond Arena crowd but plainly visible to the large UNH contingent
in the same section, was his FIRST attempt at sign-making = "UHN s", with
the UHN crossed-out in magic marker and replaced with UNH (he apparently
then decided to just start over on the other side).  This incident
quickly became part of UNH-Maine lore, and was widely discussed (!!) on
USCHO and elsewhere.  Now, I won't pretend to know whether the UNH fans
in question could/would have been that smart (we are a "safety school
after all :-) to purposefully egg on the Maine fans that way (with whom
we share a much more recent history than Cornell fans), but I'm prepared
to give 'em the benefit of the doubt <grin> ....

  Cheers from the Chesapeake - GO BLUE !!!!  Jim