HNIC Song

[thetreble 19]

What the %$#@!!!???

I'm actually disheartened by this. It's...cultural!

[Krikit 1,164]

It always comes down to money.

But it sure won't be the same.

[thetreble 19]

Since the mind-80s I have been listening to that intro song pretty much every saturday night. (until i moved to this god forsaken place I guess..hahah )

It just seems like it's iconic in a way....Why is there a need to change it? This might just be as bad as when Blue died

[Flames9_RN 358]

I read on one site, she gets about $500 a game for it!

[MrsCat 6]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

[Flames9_RN 358]

oh ya,there will be some serious outrage over this!! i wish i knew how to download the theme to my verizon cell phone!!

[Eric_and_Corinna 0]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

Where in Alaska did he live? I might know him

[Krikit 1,164]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

Where in Alaska did he live? I might know him

Ruh roh. Careful Catt.

[Texanadian 10]

Some how opening a hockey game with the Friendly Giant theme song just wouldn't be the same.

Stick with the old song!

[Eric_and_Corinna 0]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

Where in Alaska did he live? I might know him

Ruh roh. Careful Catt.

It's too late now!! She already married him no matter what I might know

[Leafgal 3]

Perhaps it is time for us all to write about our outrage to them, like it was said shades of the Ron McLean debacle.

[MrsCat 6]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

Where in Alaska did he live? I might know him

Chris lived in Metlakatla - aka Annette Island Indian Reservation

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=met...sa=N&tab=wl

And a caveat - prior to January, 2006 I am not responsible for a single thing or person his did!

[Earmuffs 1]

never cared for hockey...

and if you want the song on your cell just transfer it from your computer... thats what i do..

[Eric_and_Corinna 0]

OMFG - that's just wrong. Honestly, I bet it'll be just like when CBC wouldn't negotiate a pay raise for Ron McLean - so much outrage that they just did it in the end.

When I first met Chris - he lived on this small small island in Alaska. And when I first arrived, all the locals would sing the HNIC song when I walked through the grocery store. It made it feel like home. Everyone knows that song - its part of being CDN.

Where in Alaska did he live? I might know him

Chris lived in Metlakatla - aka Annette Island Indian Reservation

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=met...sa=N&tab=wl

And a caveat - prior to January, 2006 I am not responsible for a single thing or person his did!

I never met anyone from there, so you're safe

never cared for hockey...

and if you want the song on your cell just transfer it from your computer... thats what i do..

Earmuffs, it's a good thing you live in Texas then!! Plenty of NASCAR and football to keep you busy...

[trailmix 77]

As news reports circulated Thursday suggesting the CBC had already dumped Claman's composition, objections were quickly voiced by ordinary fans and more notable ones -- including Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and longtime Hockey Night in Canada commentator Howie Meeker.

"This is ridiculous," Stelmach said as the Alberta legislature's spring session wrapped up Thursday.

"Aside from O Canada, the Maple Leaf Forever, really the Hockey Night in Canada theme -- I mean we hear it everywhere, even during the summer."

"You get to a barbecue in rural Alberta and somebody strikes it up after a good volume of O Canada, and it's going to disappear?"

The premier became emotional about the topic and took a deep breath before saying the CBC has caused him a few heartaches and sleepless nights.

He suggested he'd take his "pent-up" feelings to iconic hockey personality Don Cherry.

Meeker, a former NHLer renowned for his high-energy presence during decades of hockey telecasts, was apoplectic over the reported demise of the theme.

"To half the Canadians 40 years and over, we grew up with that damn thing," Meeker, the 84-year-old ex-Toronto Maple Leaf and former Conservative MP, said from his home in Parksville, B.C.

"That's part of our history, part of our life, part of the enthusiasm for the game. When you heard that, you thought Canada, you thought hockey, you thought CBC. What idiot -- What the hell are they trying to do? Who's running the CBC?"

Calgary Herald

Edited June 6, 2008 by trailmix