New Jersey Devils: Fixing The Goal Song ‘Problem’

The New Jersey Devils were forced to switch their goal song from ‘Rock and Roll Part II’ because the man behind the song is horrible. We may have found a solution that makes everyone happy.

Literally, weekly I see a post on one of the many New Jersey Devils fan pages, blog comment sections or chat sites about losing “Rock and Roll Part II” as the Devils goal song. Sure, it worked really well, but sometimes this is bigger than just what you like. That song was made by Gary Glitter. That means the royalties for said songs go to that same Gary Glitter. This is the same Gary Glitter that did this.

Gary Glitter is a bad person, who never learned from his mistakes, and is a serial statutory rapist. We can say that, because he was convicted of said crimes multiple times in different countries. Do I need to continue to tell you why a multi-million dollar organization like the Devils don’t need to continue to provide money to a person like this?

Anyways, that is ancient history anyway. Before the 2013-14 season, the team made the only decision to get rid of the song.

Since then, the Devils played around with a Bon Jovi song, which was bad, Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, which I liked, and then now we have Howl by Gaslight Anthem. The current song is quite cool, but people just can’t get over the old song. Well, maybe we can find something that makes everyone happy.

What’s one of the few cool things we still love about baseball? It’s the walk-up song. People change them to fit their personality, trying to get people pumped up or just trying to be funny. Either way, nobody hates the walk-up songs. They are amazing.

Let’s do that in hockey, only better. Let’s give each player their own goal song.

Think about how awesome it would be to listen to Taylor Hall scoring and a Selena Gomez song playing through the rafters. No? Hey, he’s gotta keep shooting his shot.

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But back to the point, Jesper Bratt could score and Avicii could blare around the arena. Nico HIschier could play some Swiss rap song we never heard of. Travis Zajac would definitely off the Top 40. It would be a mystery, and we could play along. Imagine how cool it would be if they didn’t reveal the song before hand, and we didn’t learn the song until that person scored.

It would be so sick when someone like Kurtis Gabriel, who we don’t expect to score, threw one in the back of the net and Metallica started playing over the loud speakers. As much as some of these players aggravate us, hearing their goal song would be fun no matter who it is.

This could be another thing that gets the players excited. Obviously, they aren’t going to want to score more because they have a goal song, but it could provide an increased feeling once said goal is scored. I could see it being a cheeky little situation between say Hall and Kyle Palmieri. It will add to the fun of scoring a goal.

We also know that Devils fans would find a way to yell “You Suck” at different times in the different songs. That would be half the fun!

Seriously, this seems like a no brainer. Give the players goal songs. This could turn into a trend that becomes the norm around the NHL. It’s not hard to have all the songs on a soundboard, and have a button with all the songs. Heck, you can do it on an app for the IPad. Make this happen Devils, because it would be awesome.