The new guy in Burgundy & Blue can carry a tune, don’t you think?
“And you know, because they played our song, they won the Stanley Cup,” Mark Hoppus, lead singer of Blink-182, told reporters before the Avs raised their 2022 Stanley Cup championship banner at Ball Arena and got to work defending it.
“Every other team didn’t play our song. No Stanley Cup.”
Last spring, all the stars aligned. On Wednesday night, they were out at Ball Arena in force.
Wayne Gretzky wore a charcoal blazer. Joe Sakic wore a smile. Hoppus, decked out in a customized home Avs sweater, led the full house in a rendition of his band’s signature hit, “All The Small Things.