Ole Chant
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it's awful and lame, enough of that stupid chant
We should do it more. It's makes the whole nhl salty.
Back when I was 13. I thought it was awesome.
When I was 18, I laughed at other team fans for hating it.
When I turned 25, it started to annoy me how the fans would use it pretty much anytime.
35 year old me today, hates it.
When I was 18, I laughed at other team fans for hating it.
When I turned 25, it started to annoy me how the fans would use it pretty much anytime.
35 year old me today, hates it.
I think it’s a decent troll in a late 3rd period blow out. I think it matched well with the 2000s teams better… for whatever reason
We should start using it only when we're getting blown out. Confuse people in order to mount the comeback.
At any point during and especially in a blowout
As long as we're owning them opponents, because when it backfires, it sucks lol
As long as we're owning them opponents, because when it backfires, it sucks lol
A fanbase of a bottom 5 team should be really modest and humble.
Who the hell cares, and why is there an Ole police?
Fans want to chant? Let them chant. This isn't the opera with strict etiquette.
Imagine asking this question anywhere else in the world.
Fans want to chant? Let them chant. This isn't the opera with strict etiquette.
Imagine asking this question anywhere else in the world.
We need more chants
More fan culture
More unique expressions of support
The Ole chant was only "hated" because we had garbage teams and won by the skin of our teeth, usually due to the goalie stealing the game. It's otherwise perfectly fine.
More fan culture
More unique expressions of support
The Ole chant was only "hated" because we had garbage teams and won by the skin of our teeth, usually due to the goalie stealing the game. It's otherwise perfectly fine.
This.
It's such a silly thing. The greatest part about playing in Montreal is the atmosphere and energy in the building, it's what makes it the most special place in the world to watch and play hockey, bar none. Neutering the fans passion is crazy talk.
I wouldn't want it any other way. It doesn't matter when they do it, or how they do it, as long as they continue to do it. While leading or behind matters not to me.
This is from a playoff game against the Bruins, note we're actually trailing in the game, (in a commercial break) it's NOT a victory chant. If this doesn't get your juices flowing, you might need to check your vital signs.
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During a blowout and only in the last 10 minutes.
Extra special in playoffs.
Extra special in playoffs.
This is something I'll never understand. Less chanting? Why? There should be way more chanting! There should be songs about the glory of our team, there should be songs about how the opponents suck, there should be songs about individual players etc.
Coming from Europe and a football background, to me matches in the NHL often seems like they take place in a library. So I think there should be way more Oles, way more fan culture, way more of everything like that.
Coming from Europe and a football background, to me matches in the NHL often seems like they take place in a library. So I think there should be way more Oles, way more fan culture, way more of everything like that.
Hard to argue with this. We see glimpses of this in Erupean hockey as well with the drums and chants. Would love that kind of atmosphere in an arena. I'd be drunk the whole game!
My grip with it is that at times it imo be a source of motivation for opponent to comeback and do a big FU to crowd. Kind of like when X player gets booed
At some point people started conflating this song with a victory song like Goodbye.
“It’s too early for that!” Wut??
It’s more for whenever the crowd feels like it - of course, it’s unlikely when losing.
“It’s too early for that!” Wut??
It’s more for whenever the crowd feels like it - of course, it’s unlikely when losing.
To me the Ole chant has always been a ''we're having a good time'' chant. Whenever the game is getting exciting, that's when it starts up and obviously that usually coincides with scoring goals and taking a lead. I'll always remember sometime in the mid-00s the chant starting up after an amazing 5 on 3 PK by the Habs after a suspect call from the referees so that chant does come up on other occasions. Hell, I've even heard during at the initial puck drop.
In the past few years, it has become perceived as a bragging/victory type chant by opposing fans which always seemed kind of funny when the actual bragging chant, NaNaNa Goodbye, is right there and ready to be fired off at a more opportune time.
Anywho, who cares, I'll never be against anything that adds more ambience to a game. To me, that's like asking NYR fans to stop chanting Potvin Sucks even though he hasn't played since the 80s.
In the past few years, it has become perceived as a bragging/victory type chant by opposing fans which always seemed kind of funny when the actual bragging chant, NaNaNa Goodbye, is right there and ready to be fired off at a more opportune time.
Anywho, who cares, I'll never be against anything that adds more ambience to a game. To me, that's like asking NYR fans to stop chanting Potvin Sucks even though he hasn't played since the 80s.
Its a chant that lets it clearly known that the crowd is happy , contrarily to that stupid seven nation army chant. The crowd should do it whenever they feel like it. But isn't the chant started by the jumbotron most of the time?
I would like for the Habs to start halte-la halte-la halte-la chants while showing the lyrics on the jumbotron
I would like for the Habs to start halte-la halte-la halte-la chants while showing the lyrics on the jumbotron
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Exactly, we have been bad for so long that most people have forgotten that NaNaNa Goodbye is the victory chant. Time to bring that one back to the fore with some decisive wins
Players have always circled montreal on their calendar. Home players are excited to play here but the double edged sword (or fun depending on how you look at it) is that so are the visitors.
That's just part of the DNA, whether the fans are chanting Ole or not.
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