No hurtin' music allowed

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...and hockey don't mix.

One thing you apparently don’t want to be in a hockey dressing room is a country music fan.

That’s one thing that became readily apparently when I was researching today's feature on athletes and music. The general consensus among players was that they were open to most genres, but they almost always added the proviso “anything but country.”

Maple Leafs defenceman Ian White, who grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba, tends to listen to country music away from the rink, but doesn’t even try to bring it into the dressing room.

“I think some guys under cover like the country tunes, but there’s not a lot of country being played,” said White. “There’s enough anti-country feeling that it doesn’t get into the (iPod used in the dressing room).”

NOTE: An editing error in the the newspaper version of the playlists' story made it look like Andy Frost, host of Q107's Psychedelic Psunday and the Leafs' public address announcer, isn't the keen judge of musical fare he's known to be.

The full quote of his assessment of Hal Gill's playlist is: "Any guy that has Van Morrison's Into The Mystic at the top of his list and includes Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" and some Lightfoot and a band from Winnipeg to boot has my respect," said Frost. "Pretty impressive that a guy from Concord, Mass., is aware of our Canadian Content regulations."

"Lightfoot and a band from Winnipeg to boot," which was the Crash Test Dummies, got cut in trimming the story down for the newspaper.

- Randy Starkman

Related: Get Your Game-Time Groove On (Toronto Star)

Comments

[Carla]

'"You want to shoot yourself after listening to it," Gill says of McCabe's musical selection.'

I want to shoot myself after watching McCabe's play this season. ;-)