What's with the Oilers and this Pink Pony Club song?
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Wayne Gretzky might not know if it's a band or a song, but Pink Pony Club, by Chappell Roan, has been adopted by the Oilers as their unofficial celebration song inside the dressing room.
It's grown to the point where the organist plays a slow (and equally as popular among Oilers faithful) angelic version ahead of opening faceoff.
But good luck getting any of the players to let you in on exactly why, what it means or where the new ditty even came from in the first place.
'I'm going to keep that one within the team,' defenceman Evan Bouchard said at the podium prior to the puck dropping on the Stanley Cup Finals earlier this week.
Whether it's their musical version of a lucky rabbit's foot, or something that began as nothing more than an inside joke, the Oilers have to be laughing at just how much of a stir the song has created around not only Edmonton, but the rest of the NHL.
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