Canucks: Examine these vibes, it's time for a brand new purpose track

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It began out because the track that no person needed. Practically 4 a long time later, it’s nonetheless the track that no person needs.

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Effectively, at the least the bushy-bearded, male, Oakley Sutro-wearing demographic at Vancouver Canucks video games. You recognize, that overly vocal section on social media proselytizing concerning the virtues of investing in Bored Apes and smugly retweeting flat earth theories.

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It’s solely been two years that Don’t You (Overlook About Me) has been the Canucks’ purpose track, ever since a mic’d-up J.T. Miller sealed the deal by singing alongside — HEY HEY HEY — throughout ’80s night time in opposition to the Columbus Blue Jackets in December 2021.

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Easy Minds recorded it in 1984, however solely after turning down the track’s writers — producer Keith Forsey and guitarist Steve Schiff — 5 instances, and solely after the duo was stonewalled by Billy Idol, Bryan Ferry and The Fixx. The maudlin and melancholy dance observe hit No. 1 within the U.S. and Canada, and was a part of the soundtrack for The Breakfast Membership, a film that I’ll exit on a limb and say most Canucks followers aren’t sufficiently old to recollect watching in theatres.

However these followers are sufficiently old to recollect the previous few years, neglect them as they struggle.

Two weeks earlier than Miller’s goal-celebration crooning to Easy Minds, the Canucks had fired head coach Travis Inexperienced and common supervisor Jim Benning with the staff languishing in final place within the Pacific Division and on their technique to a second-straight season out of the playoffs.

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The hiring of Bruce (There It Is) Boudreau didn’t change that in 2021 nor 2022, and he was proven the door in January — nicely, extra like despatched by way of it like Jazzy Jeff — and the melancholy continued. Aside from the blip within the COVID-19 season when the upstart ‘Nucks ran by way of the West earlier than dropping to the Vegas Golden Knights within the second spherical, Vancouver has been exterior of the playoffs wanting in since 2014-15. Melancholy labored for that period.

However this 12 months? Try these vibes.

First within the West, second greatest document total within the league. You need objectives? How about 70 — 12 greater than the following closest staff. You need stars? How about Nos. 1 by way of 3 in factors leaders in Miller (26) Elias Petterson (26) and Quinn Hughes (26). Oh, and The Move himself, Brock Boeser, tied for the league in objectives scored (13) alongside Auston Matthews and Kyle Connor.

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Hughes sits No. 1 in plus/minus. Goalie Thatcher Demko is second in wins and fifth in save share.

These vibes, these 2023-24 vibes, they’re immaculate.

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Don’t You is catchy, if a bit sleepy, and also you’ll even spot these Sutro Bros are on the market La-La-La-ing at Rogers. But it surely seems like a brand new period. It’s about time for a brand new purpose track.

It must be upbeat, straightforward for anybody to sing alongside, a punctuating beat or bass and stick in your thoughts. There’s a entire era of Canucks followers who will fly right into a rage any time they hear the opening stanza of the Fratelli’s Chelsea Dagger. That proper there may be proof of a great purpose track.

Earlier than Don’t You, there was Van Halen (Aint talkin’ bout love), Inexperienced Day (Vacation), U2 twice (Elevation, The Miracle), and Locksley (The Whip).

However this isn’t as straightforward as simply dropping in a brand new jam. It’s not the identical as listening to a full-length track; the chosen stanza has to resonate, it has to, nicely, sing. And the Canucks’ presentation staff has been trialling songs for awhile. They did three within the 2022-23 pre-season, and roughed in six extra this 12 months, however none have but resonated.

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And video games could have followers from eight to 88 years; attempt to pinpoint one that’s obtained nicely in all of the demographics in-between. One other theme night time hit, making an attempt to recapture the reception that the Easy Minds’ track acquired in 2021, could be the best way ahead.

Or higher but, personalised purpose songs.

Miller can hold Don’t You, since they’re endlessly and inexorably linked, however how concerning the different scoring machines? Off the highest of my head; Petterson could possibly be Lovely Life by Swedish icons Ace of Bass; Hughes must be I Need It That Method by the Backstreet Boys, since he already is aware of the choreography. Boeser, on hair alone … Hannah Montana’s Let’s Get Loopy.

Full disclosure, I personal a pair of Oakley Sutros, so maybe I’m not the most effective individual to recommend new purpose songs. However let’s hear your recommendations, and we’ll drop the most effective within the subsequent Canucks’ mailbag.

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