What a cool idea to have each Canadien pick a song to accompany them as they skated onto the ice during opening night at the Bell Centre on Tuesday.

And, wow, what an eclectic mix of tunes they selected. I get the feeling if they’d done the same thing in the Carey Price/Shea Weber era, it would’ve been mostly rather predictable country songs. But this playlist, which you can look up on Spotify , was all over the map musically and culturally.

At first, I couldn’t figure out why Cole Caufield picked the classic rock staple Money for Nothing from Dire Straits, but if you believe what you read on social media, many thought it was a joke riffing on Lane Hutson signing that huge contract the day before. The other classic rock selection was Brendan Gallagher going for Metallica’s crunching an

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