Some highlights from my notes while watching tonight’s NHL All Star Game festivities:
The Stanford Band is on the ice for the player introductions. I love college marching bands, but they’re my least favorite. They’re not half as clever as they think they are, and they don’t stack up musically against, say, the top Big Ten bands.
For the Canadian anthem, they have a country singer who was a former Vancouver draft pick. Cool to have that hockey connection, and he sings it well.
The Star Spangled Banner singer, on the other hand, completely butchered it.