Go to any Canberra Brave game at the AIS Arena and it's impossible to miss. Even those watching games on television will spot it.
And this Sunday at the Brave's final home game of the season is the last chance fans can enjoy it this year at Bruce.
The impossibly infectious "pointy-finger dance" as this reporter once heard it described by a fan, has become an iconic part of the Brave game-day experience since the move from Phillip in May last year.
After every goal the Brave score fans instantly erupt into a deafening sing and dance-a-long, pointing their fingers to the roof, bopping to the chorus of It's Crazy, It's Party by Finnish Eurovision star Kaarija.
But what is this peculiar celebration's origin story?
Sharyn Howell is the Brave superfan credited as the inventor of the popular goal celebration dance.
She said it was simply an expression of happiness following a goal at a game late last season, and when a friend spotted her jig from the other side of the arena and texted her about it, Howell encouraged her to join in.
The rest is history.
"She texted me and said, 'What on earth are you doing?' So I just wrote back and said, 'Dance with me when there's a goal'," Howell said.
"Then I bumped into somebody else I knew during the period break, and I said to them, 'Dance with me, it'll be fun'.
"By the fourth goal in the game everybody was dancing and it's just grown ever since."
"I'm just awestruck that everybody thought it was an okay thing to do, and I was so incredibly pleased that the players enjoyed it too, because you really feel as a supporter that you want to contribute," Howell added.
The dance is similar to the globally-famous air-punching sports fan celebration performed to Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis, but Howell insists the rendition at Brave games is a unique creation.
"When the Brave first got to the AIS it was the same time a few of their imports and big players returned, and you could just feel the shift for their season," Howell said.
"So with the finger pointing I was thinking, 'Up, up, up, here we go, to the Goodall Cup'.
"Anybody can do it, and I have to laugh when fans of the opposing team do the dance with their middle finger instead, but nobody can tell that they've got their hand turned around the other way so it's just like they're joining in."
Like most long-time Brave supporters, Howell has been amazed at the incredible surge in ice hockey's popularity in Canberra and even around Australia.
She's even encountered newer young female fans at games that admitted they only attended after watching the ice hockey television dramas, Heated Rivalry and Off Campus.
But Howell was there back in the days of the Canberra Knights, and before games at the "Brave Cave" in Phillip she was always at the front of the member line at the entrance.
She has every piece of Brave merchandise imaginable, and has even created some items herself, such as the multicoloured braid wig that only her and about five other supporters still own from 2017.
Leaving behind the wooden seats and chicken wire at Phillip, Howell was among the army of volunteers who helped Brave owner Stephen Campbell bring the AIS Arena rink to life, and where every game there since has been a sellout of 3000-plus crowds.
"I've found a real community with the Brave," Howell said.
"We've been to weddings, sadly to funerals, but we can also walk into a room with the players and they all know us and say hello."
On Sunday the Brave take on the Brisbane Lightning for their last appearance at the AIS Arena for the 2026 season, before two away games in Melbourne.
Then the Australian Ice Hockey League finals begin on Friday August 28, also at O'Brien Icehouse in Melbourne.
Brave home games have been the hottest ticket in Canberra all year and Sunday's clash is expected to be another sellout.
The Brave sit in third spot on the AIHL ladder, and still have a chance to overtake competition leaders Newcastle Northstars and Melbourne Mustangs with a strong finish to the regular season.
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Sunday: Canberra Brave v Brisbane Lightning at AIS Arena, 2pm
