Skates, cutting into the ice with a razor-sharp sound
Many people will try to find the best around
Passes, pucks, players, perform
Edges like knives on steels they do swarm
In front of the net, the mesh shudders and quakes
With every slap of the puck that I take
Hockey may have first been play in Scotland, but it is Canada’s game through and through
And in Canada is where the sport grew
The 50’s, the rocket became the first to score 500 in an entire career
When he skated down the ice, he filled the goalie with fear
In the 60’s we had Gordie Howe taking over the league swiftly
But Bobby Hull was the first to score fifty
The 70’s gave us the greatest war on ice
After Canada beat the Soviet Union, the taste of victory was so, so nice
The 80’s Lemieux, Roy, Gretzky, 10 rings combine
They more cups than the Oilers and the Rangers, who both won nine
The 90’s brought us new teams far and wide
But the 1994 lockout lost the NHL a lot pride
The 00’s introduced the shootout but scoring rapidly declined
And Jagr received one of the biggest contracts ever signed
The sound of the roaring crowd
With the screaming, crying and cheering so loud
The crowd is the heart of their teams
Every hit, fight and goal they scream
Here, arenas come in many different shapes and sizes
In them, teams have won many different prizes
The round, rubber, removal of the puck from my stick
To score on a breakaway you have to be quick
My gloves, like the tools to my brain
If you don’t use them correctly, there is not much to gain
Now that Don Cherry is gone, a new controversy arose
All because of the poor words he chose
With this a new lesson is taught
I will miss him, for all the great memories he brought
The dream of scoring the game winning goal
Hockey is Canada’s heart and soul
Some say the posts are the goalies best friends
And when the save can’t be made, upon it he depends
Hockey
Every outcome is a mystery
Every team competing to win it all
Every player writing their names in history
All but one will fall