I remember going to the Bright Center to watch one of the old NCAAA regionals, when they had 8 teams. Back in 83, I think. Harvard hosted Michigan State. Of course, the first chippy play by state and the crowd starts chanting "a$$hole, a$$hole." Then they have this real small forward, so the crowd starts chanting "midget" anytime he comes on ice. The goalie let's up a goal, so the "sieve" stuff starts. Then another guy starts something as they are getting beat, and the Harvard crowd starts in with "a$$hole" again. Finally, the student section puts it all together, and starts pointing out each of the 4 players and starts going around, "A$$hole, A$$hole, Midget, Sieve" pointing to each player in turn.
This was also the year these guys invented the "blackhole" chant. I was at that game, and it was quite organic. Princeton's #1 goalie was a guy Ron Dennis, I think. He let up about 6 or 7 goals and was pulled with about 10 minutes left. They put in the backup, a kid named Wally McDonough. He had no warm ups, and the first 3 shots are screens that go in. So the band, which was right behind Wally, yells, "hey McDonough, you're a seive." Then, a minute or so passes, and the student section yells, "hey McDonough, you're not a sieve, you're a funnel." Then a bit of time passes, and the band yells back, "hey McDonough, you're not a funnel, you're a vacuum." Another minute, and the can you top this continues with the student section chanting, "hey McDonough, you're not a vacuum, you're a black hole." Finally, the band concedes and yells, "hey McDonough, you're not a black hole, you just $uck." This then becomes a classic college hockey chant picked up by a bunch of schools.
The coda to this was Wally actually was a very good goalie in 1983-84, and the year after that, he ended up in my class at law school. I did not remember or put it together that he was the Princeton goalie, but a year or so in, we got talking college hockey, ECAC, the hockey east split, etc... and when the blackhole chant is mentioned, Wally says, "I'm the guy they invented it on." He talks about the lack of warmups and says the one thing he said to the defensemen was don't back down and screen me when he came in.
