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Monarchs' Mullet Night II

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By KEVIN PROVENCHER

Staff Sports Writer

They thought it might be a “hair-brained” idea from the beginning. Hair today. Gone tomorrow.

They were wrong.

The Manchester Monarchs, who boast the highest attendance of any minor-league hockey team in the country, will once again pay tribute to hockey hair when they host Mullet Night II in the city’s Verizon Wireless Arena on Friday, March 12.

The event is back by popular demand.

Last February, a capacity crowd of 9,916 in the Big V saluted former L.A. Kings coach and ESPN pro hockey analyst Barry Melrose for his long dedication to the mullet hairstyle. More than 5,000 mullet wigs in all colors were given to fans. Between periods of that Monarchs’ game, Melrose acted as judge. The night’s Grand Mullet belonged to 12-year-old Devin Tebo of Derry, who was hailed with a standing ovation.

“Short in the front and long in the back, the mullet hairstyle over the years has come to symbolize the rock-and-roll-will-never-die mentality that lives in every one of us,” said Dave Sholow, a Manchester resident and self-proclaimed executive director of the Mullet Hall of Fame — which does not yet have a home.

There’s no mistaking Sholow’s passion. He sports a shiny blonde, shoulder-length mullet.

Those already enshrined in the Mullet Hall of Fame include pro baseball pitcher Randy Johnson and actor Patrick Swazey, who played a hockey player in the movie “Youngblood.”

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Monarchs President Jeff Eisenberg sports a

mullet to announce Mullet Night II yesterday in

Manchester. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)

Eligibility?

“You have to have accomplished something in the sports world, probably not necessarily an athlete, although you could be a current or past athlete,” said Monarchs publicist Mike Kalinowski. “You also have been wearing the mullet while doing so.”

Asked who votes on hall of fame membership, Kalinowski said: “You’re splitting hairs . . . There’s no organized voting.”

Early favorites are Ron Duguay, the NHL’s hearthrob mullet poster boy while playing with the New York Rangers and L.A. Kings; Toronto’s Al Iafrate, a credit to chrome-domers with his bald top and mullet down his back; and Jaromir Jagr, whose flowing mullet scored in the 1980s for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan and country vocalist Billy Ray Cyrus should also be among the follicle front-runners.

The Monarchs’ mullet mullah is John Crabbe, the team’s promotions stylist, so to speak. He admits it was a hairy promotion last season that involved some expense for the team, with the purchase of 5,000-plus wigs directly from China. But the promotion made national news.

Team officials did not say if wigs would be given to fans this year. The Monarchs will be playing the Worcester Ice Cats.

Last year’s event certainly turned Monarchs President Jeff Eisenberg into a big hair backer.

“Hockey’s what we do, but we can have fun along the way,” he said.

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