 The Hockey Theme

"The Hockey Theme" is a Canadian theme song written in 1968 by Dolores Claman and orchestrated by Jerry Toth.The theme was associated with CBC Television's "Hockey Night in Canada", and Télévision de Radio-Canada's "La Soirée du hockey" from 1968 until 2002 on French broadcasts when the CBC lost its rights to broadcast NHL games in French and RDS aired a simulcast of "Le Hockey du samedi soir", and in 2008 for English Broadcasts when the CBC announced that the negotiations to renew their licence or purchase the theme had been unsuccessful and that they would run a national contest to find a new theme song.