This has turned out to be a bad night for music that you probably haven’t heard, maybe.

Stompin Tom Connors has passed away.

I don’t know if we can call him a Canadian Icon or not.  Not being from Canada it would be presumptuous of me to call him a Canadian Icon.  I do know that he won a bunch of Juno awards (the Canadian version of the Grammies) and gave them back to protest the fact that many of the winners were Canadians living in the United States.  I guess that’s not Canadian enough for Canada’s Grammies.

He also wrote the one song that MUST be played during every hockey game.  Be it in an intermission, or during a stoppage in play, it doesn’t matter.  Stompin Tom’s Hockey Song NEEDS to be played at all hockey games.