With all of the talk about the above, I remember about ten years or so
ago at Merrimack's Volpe Complex, the students would throw tennis balls on to
the ice everytime Merrimack would score a goal. ( I'm not talking about a
few. I mean 40-50 or more.) Interestingly, the tennis balls would
mysteriously reappear again and again during the game. No penalties were ever
called and it became an institution of sorts. It all ended  rather abruptly
during a playoff game when a ref did call a penalty. This was back when
Merrimack was in ECAC Division II. A revival of sorts was attempted this year
but a warning from the officials and the presence of the local police
scanning the stands put a damper on the attempt.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                            I
think the best chant that I have ever heard came from our upriver rivals at
Lowell was "Merrimack stinks. Just like the river". To which Merrimack fans
would chant back, "Where's your campus?" (Lowell's campus is on either side
of the river. Merrimack's is not.) Probably, the chant is no longer relative
since the river is now clean.
                                                         As for music and
other sound effects, I think the best was this year when Air Force was
@Merrimack during homecoming. The Falcons were welcomed on the ice to the
song "In the Navy" by The Village People. Since Merrimack has no band, the
time between faceoffs was filled with assorted jet planes taking off,
landing,  etc. along with a few burst of machine guns and bombs dropping and
an occasional indian war chant. Sometimes. alot of the fun isn't on the ice.
-NICK
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                         P.S.
UNH fans still throw a fish even when on the road. I have never heard of them
getting a official warning.