![]() ![]() The Senators’ new song for this season replaces last year’s “Wake Me Up,” by Avicii. Fun fact: Giroux liked his own choice so much, he was the first Flyer to set off the new goal song’s reign, scoring on the power play during the home opener. We Are Loud & Sonny WilsonĬhosen by team captain Claude Giroux, the very dancey “Booyah” replaces last season’s “ Light Em Up” by Fall Out Boy. Frank and Melody Catalano, who used it for their wedding entrance. “Players were the final vote and liked it.” “It was an organizational vote,” says PR director Kimber Auerbach. The “one other” team to use Satriani (more on that later), New York jacked the anthem from Minnesota in 2011. The club started fresh this season, with Andruska’s original jam, which is essentially a “Rock and Roll, Part 2” knockoff. They should’ve put their own Penguins twist on it, like having Morgan Freeman narrate the lyrics.Īs part of the Glitter revolt and because Jersey fans were chanting “ You suck!” in the middle of it, the Devils switched their celebratory tune a few times recently, including to the short-lived “This Is Our House” by Jersey’s Bon Jovi and the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”-a fine tune but one also being used by the Senators at the time. The Pens say the switch was a “collective marketing decision.” They lose marks, however, because it’s also the Bruins’ goal song. The Penguins used to whip out “Song 2,” but made the switch this season because “Kernkraft” is familiar and gets the people goin’. ![]() That season the club switched to Green Day’s “ Holiday,” but reverted back to Glitter, our readers tell us, due to fan familiarity. San Jose has been using “Rock and Roll, Part 2” since the franchise’s inception in 1991, save for a blip in 2006-07. The Sharks, too, jumped on the Glitter bandwagon early, gave it an organ twist, and never looked back - sort of. “Rock and Roll, Part 2 (Organ Version)″ by Gary Glitter So, Colorado continues to use the song despite Glitter’s conviction on child sexual abuse charges in Vietnam in 2006-the impetus for a handful of other teams finding a replacement tune and the reason we’re giving it an unflattering ranking. Denver’s Nuggets and Broncos also carried on the tradition, bringing the sports anthem to the NBA and NFL. When O’Brien got hired by the Colorado Rockies in 1976, the song came with him-and it travelled to New Jersey when the Rockies became the Devils. You’ve heard this classic a million times, but “Rock and Roll, Part 2” (better known as the “Hey” song) made its debut at a Kalamazoo Wings hockey game in 1974, when it was selected by PR and marketing director Kevin O’Brien. Inspired by this fun goal-horn site, we decided to research and rank all 30 teams’ goal songs, many of which are brand spankin’ new for 2014–15.īelow you can hear Nos. ![]()
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