Goal Horn Musicology

Photo by Gregg Forwerck/NHLI via Getty ImagesIt’s August, which means it’s time to get weird.

For a few years I’ve kicked around the idea of doing a musicological analysis of every goal horn in the league. I fully expected that I would probably be able to comfortably fit the number of interested parties in my living room, and that this would likely be nothing more than a vanity project that could set an SB Nation record for fewest page views.

And then I brought it up in our site Slack, and lo and behold, not only was it immediately received with way more enthusiasm than I ever expected, but Zeke said he actually wanted to chip in as well. So what was originally going to be me going down the…