"Classy" acts by fans

[Soundwave]

Oilers fans giving Craig Anderson a standing ovation after playing once his wife's cancer prognosis came out. Also for Cam Talbot for staying on the ice to show Anderson respect.

 

[ItchyScratchy77]

How about the "Laine's better" chant that I incited. Is that classy or simply awesome?

Teemu's first game back in Winnipeg. Now that was a classy show of appreciation!

 

[MardyBum]

It hasn't been posted and I think the old thread that drove all of it is gone, but this was such an awesome story.

link, link

ps241 is one classy poster.

 

[onlyalad]

For me it is more the Tannerhead movement in LA in 2011. Tanner was a fan dying of cancer. He was in need of a bone marrow transplant. He could no longer go to games so people started putting his face on a stick to represent him being there. The team got wind of it and allowed "Be the Match" to register people at the last game of the season. So many people were in line for this young man that the line went around the concourse for the entire game. He wasn't a player or anyone special. Just another fan in the seats that everyone came together for.
And no he didn't ever see his team raise the cup

 

[antman12]

Wow what a great thread. Thanks to everybody who's posted so far.

 

[spiny norman]

Copied this from youtube ...

March 2, 2010 -- Buffalo Sabres vs. Pittsburgh Penguins.

Olympians for both teams were announced before the game, with Ryan Miller drawing the loudest and most sustained cheering. The Buffalo Sabres goaltender received a standing ovation in Pittsburgh for leading the United States to an Olympic silver medal. The cheers were noticeably louder than those given to the Penguins' own Sidney Crosby.

 

[GabeTravels]

Random personal one...

4 years ago I was trying to get a ticket to the Bruins/Jets game up in Winnipeg.

Posted on the Jets board about 2 weeks before the game to see if anyone had a spare they were looking to sell. Sadly didn't get a response.

The day before the game got a message from a poster who had an extra ticket. Despite being willing to pay, she gave it to me for free.

Was an incredible experience up North.

 

[Rayban*]

Hello, everybody.
I'm a fairly new hockey fan, so the best I've seen so far is the likes of Crosby, Ovie etc.. In a recent thread I saw Laine compared to Mario Lemieux, so I thought I really should go back and see what the fuss was about. Well, he was obviously a scrub who wouldn't make it today!
(I mean really!)
The thing, though, that really got me was the rapturous reception he got in Philadelphia when he came back.
Would that happen today? If Crosby or Giroux went down and came back the way Mario did, would the fan bases cheer the way Philly fans did then?
I'm looking for other instances of hockey fans being great, gracious and "classy" towards another team's players, because it's wonderful.
(Trying to get my friends to follow hockey in Australia ain't easy!)

Wasn't Mario's return in Toronto?

 

[FDBluth]

 

[redcard]

Robitaille's last game was in San Jose, Sharks fans gave him a nice ovation at the end.

 

[Harvey Birdman]

I have to give the Flyers credit here.

1) When Lemieux came to Philly after his final radiation treatment, the Flyers can cheered the hell out of his arrival and gave him a huge standing ovation prior to the anthems.

2) Flyers fan gave Mario a 2nd standing ovation on his last game before retirement. Mario Lemieux might be the only thing out of Pittsburgh that can earn a standing ovation twice from Philly. And Philly hockey fans knew what Mario meant to the game.

Really powerful and cool hockey moments.


Also huge props to the ovation given to Anderson this year by EDM. That was great to watch.

As a Pens fans came to say both of these. The Flyers rivalry with both players, past and present, and the fans is a rivalry born in blood... But these moments showed the humanity in the game, even between rivals. Also I am a full grown ass man and watching the honoring for the Boston marathon makes me have to fight the tears back, simply awesome.

Absolutely hate your ****ing team Philly, but you guys have a huge damn heart. Props to that.

 

[PRMan]

When Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's record, it was a tying goal on a 6 on 5 with the Kings having an empty net.

Edmonton fans cheered like they won the Stanley Cup, and the Oilers organization stopped the game and had a presentation right in the middle of the game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz054j4dWIY

Gretzky ended up beating the Oilers with a wraparound in overtime.

 

[CanadienShark]

I believe it was Toronto visiting Nashville when the mic cut out during O Canada. The fans there finished O Canada for the singer.

EDIT: Apparently I had it backwards. Either way, it was a good move by the fans.

 

[Not Sure]

I believe it was Toronto visiting Nashville when the mic cut out during O Canada. The fans there finished O Canada for the singer.

That's backwards. Toronto had the mic cut out and the fans finished the American anthem, Nashville showed thanks by singing O'Canada for Toronto.

 

[Not So Mighty]

Lots of good ones in here. I'll add the fans in attendance at the All Star game forcing John Scott on to the MVP ballot mid-game.

 

[CanadienShark]

That's backwards. Toronto had the mic cut out and the fans finished the American anthem, Nashville showed thanks by singing O'Canada for Toronto.

Ah, my bad. Either way, classy by both fan bases.

 

[Nordic*]

Fans of Arizona showing up for their games.

 

[Nizdizzle]

Not as powerful as some of the other ones here, but when Mats Sundin left the Leafs in 2008 it wasn't the cleanest break. Fans were resentful that he refused to waive his NTC at the trade deadline and then left as a UFA. However, when he returned to the ACC for the first time the fans were pure class.

 

[The Head Crusher]

Lets not forget young Alyx Delaloye. The Winnipeg crowd, Jets and stars all stopped to acknowledge her.