brought his QMJHL team, the Montreal Rocket, to P.E.I. The next season after Charlottetown hosted the Royal Bank Cup in 2003, Serge Savard Jr. Meanwhile, the entire Abbies bench, and even his team, are putting gloves up in front of their face trying not to laugh,” Babineau said. He didn’t know what to do at that point because he knew I got him and I could tell he was smiling, trying not to laugh. “Now,” Babineau told the section with the signs, and they all raised them in the air.īabineau started yelling Parker’s name to get his attention and when he did, all he saw were the dozens of signs.
The whistle had blown and Parker stepped on the ice for his first shift. He passed them out and instructed everyone on what to do. He printed off enough 11×17 sheets for the entire section across from the visitor’s bench with the word CHEESEBURGER in big black letters. He wanted to gut me with his stick,” Babineau recalls.Ī few months later, Restigouche were back in Charlottetown and Conehead had a plan. He begged me to come down to the railing. “He turned around and called me just about everything you can think of. When he came off, Babineau was waiting and yelled “Cheeseburger” at him. He made his way up the stairs behind the visitor’s bench and saw that Parker had been sent out for his shift. “You want me to come over there?” Babineau yelled back.īabineau began to walk around the ice surface and Parkers eyes followed him the entire way. The River Rats came to Charlottetown on a 10-game losing streak and Babineau spent the first half of the game yelling “Cheeseburger,” a nickname he had given Parker.įrom the Restigouche bench, Parker motioned for Babineau to come over to the bench. flag, dancing to ‘Cotton Eyed Joe’ or yelling at the opposing team, he brought energy to a building that can sometimes be quiet.ĭuring one Charlottetown Abbies game he found himself in a war of words with Restigouche River Rats player, Todd Parker. Whether he was running around the arena with a P.E.I. Through his antics, Babineau sometimes outshined the action on the ice. That’s what happened here, they were out in the streets.”
People were lining up like they used to do for the Junior Islanders back in the ‘70s when they used to line-up outside the forum for tickets. “At times, you couldn’t squeeze another body in that Civic Centre. and Babineau seen it all, and was often in the middle of it.īabineau specifically remembers the excitement of 1999, when the Abbies won the championship and the Fred Page Cup and in 2003, when the team won the championship again and hosted the Royal Bank Cup in Charlottetown. The Abbies produced two recording breaking seasons in what may be the peak years for Junior Hockey on P.E.I. Soon after that, Babineau was asked to do his thing for the Charlottetown Abbies, of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League.
Halfway through the ’95-’96 season, which would turn out to be the Senators final season on the Island, Babineau was approached by the UPEI Panthers booster club, in hopes of having the Conehead spark the university crowd. Senators, but when the second season rolled around, one couldn’t afford the tickets and the Coneheads were now only two. The three had season tickets for that first ’93-’94 season of the P.E.I. “Everyone was asking where the Coneheads were so we went with the Coneheads and the rest is history as they say,” said Babineau.
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They walked into a novelty store and ordered themselves three flesh coloured cones, like you’d see in the movie Conehead’s, as well as three clown wigs.įor the first game in Charlottetown, they wore the cones and tried to make as much noise as they could, stirring up the other few thousand people in attendance.Īt the next game, the three showed up wearing the clown wigs and hoped to build off the success of the first night of super-fanning, but the clown wigs were not a success. in 1993.īabineau and two buddies, Dave Stewart and Dennis King, were as excited as the rest of the Island and decided to dress up for the occasion. It all started when the Ottawa Senators brought their AHL affiliate team to P.E.I. Sitting in his familiar section seven seat, with his usual jersey, cone, kilt and flag, he has more times than not, been the most vocal fan in the arena. If you’ve attended a hockey game at the Eastlink Centre in the last 22 years, chances are you’ve seen Wade “Conehead” Babineau in action.
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