Excellent points all. It was no doubt fun at the beginning, but with
everyone doing it at every goal its just meaningless, now. What gets me
is a goalie that has been standing on his head stopping everything
finally lets a good rebound shot in and the crowd shouts "Sieve,
sieve..." Dumb. Interestingly, in a few games where the goalie was
really off and it was a rout, the crowd starts to lose interest in the
sieve chant.
How about a Hockey-L contest to come up with a new chant?
Tom Rowe
-----Original Message-----
From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sara M. Fagan
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:58 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sieve chant
When SLU played UNH earlier this month the in-between the period games
were very entertaining. After the first period there was a game of
young players. I don' know the age of peewee players but these players
did seem quite young. After the second period we watched a game of
hockey between players who do not have the use of their legs. They use
sleds. It was very interesting and something I hadn't seen before. I
like it when schools have contests or games in between the periods.
As for the sieve chant. I hate it. and always have. I don't recall the
first time I heard it. I have always thought it was stupid for sever
reasons:
1. You should be rooting for your own team and not against the other
team.
2. What does it say about your player who just scored if the goalie
is a sieve?
3. Why hasn't your team scored more if the the goalie is so bad?
Just my opinion.
Sara
SLU '77
Let's go SAINTS!!!!
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Mamie Anthoine Ney <[log in to unmask]>
> I started going to Notre Dame hockey games in '71. They were using
> the chant then, but only when the goalie allowed several goals. When
> I went to the UNH game last weekend, they used it after every goal.
> Also, each time the announcers said that there was one minute left in
> the period, the crowd all said, "Thank you!."
>
> What was really fun was between periods watching the human bowling
> game using a bungee cord. That was a hoot.
>
> Mamie
>
>
> Mamie Anthoine Ney
> Assistant Director/Adult Services Librarian Kennebunk Free Library
> 112 Main Street
> Kennebunk, ME 04043
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hockey-L automatic digest system" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:00 AM
> Subject: Hockey-L Digest - 20 Jan 2008 to 21 Jan 2008 (#2008-16)
>
>
> > There are 6 messages totalling 188 lines in this issue.
> >
> > Topics of the day:
> >
> > 1. Where did the
> > 2. Where did the "sieve" chant come from, anyway? (2)
> > 3. Results: January 19
> > 4. Whites on the road (2)
> >
> >
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> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:52:04 +0200
> > From: Henry <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Where did the
> >
> > Dave Geringer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> The PA announcer, Phil Mendel, greeted the crowd with "Good
evening,
> >> hockey
> >> fans," and they replied in unison, "Good evening, Phil."
> >
> > Phil Mendel was a popular guy. You should have been there the night
he
> > came back after some months away for cancer treatment. The kids'
'Good
> > evening, Phil' damn near blew the roof off the ol' Great Dane (i.e.,
> > Dane County Coliseum).
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:52:02 +0200
> > From: Henry <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Where did the "sieve" chant come from, anyway?
> >
> > Bill Fenwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> I first heard it at my first Cornell game back in the early '80s,
but
> >> older
> >> accounts I've read credit the Wisconsin fans with coming up with it
> >> first,
> >> in the early '70s or perhaps even before that.
> >
> >
> > In Madison at least since the 71-72 season (when I first heard --
and
> > joined :-) it) and it was already well established by then.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:05:18 -0500
> > From: M Stock <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Results: January 19
> >
> > Saturday, January 19, 2008
> >
> > Atlantic Hockey
> > Mercyhurst 2 at Connecticut 3
> > Sacred Heart 2 at RIT 4
> > Canisius 1 at Army 2
> >
> > CCHA
> > Bowling Green 2 at Western Michigan 1 ot
> > Michigan State 4 at Ohio State 0
> > Nebraska-Omaha 4 at Alaska 3 ot
> > Northern Michigan 4 at Ferris State 1
> > Lake Superior 0 at Miami 5
> > Michigan 5 at Notre Dame 1
> >
> > CHA
> > Niagara 6 at Wayne State 5
> >
> > ECAC
> > St. Lawrence 1 at Colgate 4
> > Union 4 at Rensselaer 1
> >
> > Hockey East
> > Boston University 2 at Boston College 2 ot
> > Northeastern 2 at Vermont 5
> > Maine 4 at Providence 0
> > Massachusetts 1 at Mass.-Lowell 3
> >
> > WCHA
> > Minnesota 2 at Minnesota-Duluth 1
> > North Dakota 5 at Minnesota State 3
> > Wisconsin 4 at Alaska-Anchorage 4 ot
> >
> > Non-Conference
> > Yale 2 at Alabama-Huntsville 3
> > Air Force 1 at Colorado College 2
> > Quinnipiac 5 at Holy Cross 2
> > New Hampshire 3 vs. Dartmouth 5
> > Bemidji State 2 at Denver 4
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:44:00 -0500
> > From: Friends of UNH Hockey <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Whites on the road
> >
> > To be fair, Cornell DID wear a third jersey last year during the
Florida
> > tourney, the awful Nike Swift jerseys (UNH and Maine also had
swifts),
> > though they were pretty much the same as their normal reds :)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Fenwick
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:57 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Whites on the road
> >
> > I watched a bit of the Clarkson-Colgate game tonight on TV and
noticed
> > that
> > the Golden Knights were wearing their white normally-home uniforms
at
> > Starr
> > Rink, rather than the usual dark road ones. I'm assuming that's
because
> > Colgate is unveiling their "third" uniforms this weekend, which are
dark.
> > (Apparently, the Raiders will auction the uniforms off after this
weekend
> > for charity) It was a tad confusing to see Clarkson in their home
whites
> > in a hostile arena, and I'm thinking the Knights should have made it
a
> > clean sweep and worn their own bilious-yellow third uniforms for
this
> > game.
> > (Sorry, Clarkson-ites, that color is NOT gold!)
> >
> > If it's not obvious, I hate the whole third-uniform thing. I'm
happy my
> > beloved Big Red has only two colors and thus can't have a third
uniform.
> > At least, I hope not.
> > --
> > Bill Fenwick DJF
5/27/94
> > Cornell '86 and '95 JCF
12/2/97
> > LET'S GO RED!!
> >
> > "Next week I'm going to have an MRI to find out whether or not I
have
> > claustrophobia."
> > -- Steven Wright
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:34:00 -0500
> > From: mike <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Where did the "sieve" chant come from, anyway?
> >
> > I know that they were doing it at cornell Lax games back in the
70's..
> >
> >>At 04:56 PM 1/19/2008 -0500, =?utf-8?Q?Richard_Henry?= wrote:
> >> >I have my own theory, but I don't want to won't prejudice the
results,
> >> >so
> >> >I will respond later. Please respond with when and where you
first
> >> >heard
> >> >a visiting goalie treated to a "sieve" chant after letting in a
goal.
> >>
> >>I first heard it at my first Cornell game back in the early '80s,
but
> >>older
> >>accounts I've read credit the Wisconsin fans with coming up with it
first,
> >>in the early '70s or perhaps even before that.
> >>--
> >>Bill Fenwick DJF
5/27/94
> >>Cornell '86 and '95 JCF
12/2/97
> >>LET'S GO RED!!
> >>
> >>"Next week I'm going to have an MRI to find out whether or not I
have
> >> claustrophobia."
> >>-- Steven Wright
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:59:45 +0100
> > From: John T Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Whites on the road
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Friends of UNH Hockey wrote:
> >
> >> To be fair, Cornell DID wear a third jersey last year during the
Florida
> >> tourney, the awful Nike Swift jerseys (UNH and Maine also had
swifts),
> >> though they were pretty much the same as their normal reds :)
> >
> > Execpt for the ugly vertical stripes and hard-to-read fonts for the
> > names and numbers.
> >
> > http://elf.elynah.com/file.php?1,file=187
> >
> > Cornell wore "real" third jerseys a couple of years ago, against
> > Sacred Heart, with the twist that each jersey had the name not of
the
> > corresponding player, but of a former Big Red star to wear the same
> > number. They were auctioned for charity. Unfortunately, they were
> > also hideous:
> >
> > http://www.elynah.com/?photob&id=159
> >
> > John T. Whelan
> > Cornell '91
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > End of Hockey-L Digest - 20 Jan 2008 to 21 Jan 2008 (#2008-16)
> > **************************************************************
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