Top 5 Team Canada Hockey Team-describing songs
To quote Jon Bon, these 5 words I swear to you: Last hockey countdown for now!
A final list had to be done to acknowledge the double Gold performances by the Canadian women & men in Sochi.
My list of the Top 5 Canadian Hockey Teams of all time & the songs that describe their respective journeys. Most of the lyrics are of course used well out of intended context, enjoy!
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5. 2002 Olympics (Women)
Song: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, Starship
Being a referee is not easy. It’s up there on the list of thankless jobs. Therefore, I’m not usually one to criticize officials but this game was one of those games that I understand the anger some fans have towards referees. The Team Canada ladies overcame eight consecutive penalties in the final game to win the Gold.
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4. 1991 Canada Cup
Song: With or Without You, U2
The original undefeated Team Canada, the ‘You’ in this case meaning Wayne Gretzky. For those unfamiliar with the name, he’s Paulina’s dad and was kind of a big deal in the 80s and 90s. The Canucks won/tied the first several games with Gretzky and the final pair without #99. So I suppose they could live with or without him after all.
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3. 2002 Olympics (Men)
Song: Lucky, Radiohead
It was between this and Britney Spears’s song of the same name. Either way, lucky refers to the loonie (a Canadian $1 coin!) buried under centre ice. It’s direct impact is hard to quantify but a double gold medal was an agreeable end result.
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2. 1987 Canada Cup
Song: Just the Two of Us, Dr. Evil
The two of us in this case: The Great One (Gretzky) and Mario Lemieux (whose last name in French accurately means ‘the best’). It wasn’t even fair: Gretzky had 21 points in 9 games, Lemieux 18. The next closest player on Team Canada had 8 points.
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1. 2014 Olympics (Men)
Song: Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley
‘You’ in this case: the lead. Canada played 6 games and was tied or leading for the entire tournament. They allowed 3 goals total and shut out the Swedes and the Americans. Oh there’s probably some recency bias (seeing as the tournament has been over for all of a few hours) but this team was truly dominant. Other teams have been more exciting (’87), had better stories (’02), but this was the definitive team effort.
Olympics, done. Back to regular reviews this week, including an ‘audience-participation is required’ look at Led Zeppelin II!
WHAT?! “Audience-participation” look at Led Zep 2??! I can sing every one of these songs in my sleep! Looking forward to it!
Haha – and thank you for your patience through the hockey posts! Yes – I can’t make up my mind about specifically how great LZII is so I’ll be asking for help, hopefully as early as tomorrow!
“Patience?” bahaha!
You should see my FB status this morning: “What? We won gold? For what now?” lol
Sarcasm was wasted because someone actually told me for what.
I am not a sports person, but you related it all to music, so there. You didn’t lose me in the mix 🙂
Excellent!
One of my friends would also fit the description of not a sports fan – I appreciated his sarcastic FB posts after each goal of “touchdown!” “home run!” “basket!”
lmao, good ones!
Awesome list!
Thanks Suzie, I’ve been in a top 5 mood lately!
Haha great! I was fantastic seeing both Canadian men and women beating the USA!
My thanks – and agreed! The women’s comeback was something else.
We are the champions, my friend.
and we’ll keep on fighting to the end indeed!