The Tragically Hip & Tim Hicks Kick-Off 2014/15 NHL Season At Yonge-Dundas Square
October 8th, 2014
On Wednesday October 8, our Toronto Maple Leafs kick off the 2014 season against the Montreal Canadiens with a home game at the Air Canada Centre. If you don’t have tickets to witness the ongoing rivalry first hand, don’t fret! Beginning at noon, downtown Toronto will host the 2014 Molson Canadian NHL Face-Off, the NHL’s 2014-15 season opening hockey/music festival and viewing party at Yonge-Dundas Square.
Headlining the festival is none other than The Tragically Hip, scheduled to play at 6:30 PM before puck drop with portions broadcasting live on-air. Canadian country music star and two-time Juno Award nominee Tim Hicks will also play to the YDS crowd during 1st intermission. You can’t get much more Canadian than this, can you?
Leaf fans have always had a deep connection with The Hip, and not just because their songs are routinely featured over-top highlight montages on Hockey Night In Canada. In 1992, the band released their 3rd album Fully Completely which featured the single “Fifty Mission Cap”. The song describes the mysterious disappearance of Bill Barilko, the Leafs defenceman who won the winning goal against the Canadiens in the 1951 Stanley Cup finals. Four months later, Barilko’s plane en route to a fishing trip mysteriously vanished. In 1962, 11 years later, the plane was discovered and the Leafs won their first Stanley Cup since the ’51 victory.
The band is getting set to reissue Fully Completely this year with super deluxe CD and vinyl editions, as well as a North American tour which includes a stop at the ACC on February 19, 2014.
Will The Hip’s appearance in Toronto gives the Leafs that extra stroke of luck this year? Well, we can always hope.
