Random Song Lyrics for Every NHL Team's Start to the 2026-27 Season

We're two weeks, one Frozen Frenzy, and two Brady Tkachuk hat tricks into the 2026-27 NHL season. The sheer volume of games this week really allowed us to settle in and see what many of these teams are -- and aren't -- made of.

Can the Blue Jackets recover from yet another flop of a start to the season? Will Tkachuk ever stop scoring? Will any of the Flyers ever start scoring?

I don't have the answers, but maybe Taylor Swift or Bob Dylan do. Here's one random song lyric for every NHL team's start to the season.

ANA | BOS | BUF | CAR | CBJ | CGY | CHI | COL | DAL | DET | EDM | FLA | LAK | MIN | MTL | NJD | NSH | NYI | NYR | OTT | PHI | PIT | SEA | SJS | STL | TBL | TOR | Utah Mammoth | VAN | VGK | WPG | WSH

The Ducks have shown us that they need to clean it up on defense throughout their 4-2-0 start to the season, but that's kinda their whole schtick to begin with. One thing they definitely don't have to worry about is their scorching hot power play.

Their power play percentage is second in the league with a 33.3 percent success rate, and the young core full of high-end scoring talent is executing where it counts.

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready

Mom's spaghetti in the form of David Pastrňák's captaincy continues to make opponents ill. Somehow, the Bruins are once again doing just fine when the world calls for their demise. They're second in the Atlantic with a 5-2-0 record and a goal differential of 10; they're getting great contributions from the younger guys, and Jeremy Swayman looks strong as ever in net.

Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam

That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

The Sabres aren't off to a terrible start, and hey, it certainly beats last year's start, in which they ended up in the playoffs regardless. Still, they're missing a little oomph on both ends of the ice since parting ways with Alex Tuch and Bowen Byram. The good news? We can count on GM Jarmo Kekäläinen to peruse the trade market eventually.

Overreactions to the Start of the Season

I'm bad, I'm bad, come on (bad, bad, really, really bad)

The Flames are really, really bad in all their 1-6-0, -21 goal differential glory. At least they aren't supposed to be good like the Flyers.

They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

We're still together, still going strong

Not only are the reigning champion Hurricanes leading the East with a 6-1-1 record and 13 standings points, but their homegrown top dogs are producing. Sebastian Aho is off to one of his best career starts with six goals and 13 points in seven games, and Andrei Svechnikov has six goals and 11 points.

You know you're good when you can even do it

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - Taylor Swift

This song is basically Connor Bedard's secret mantra until the Blackhawks give in and award him a suitable winger to pass to. It's been a rough start in Chicago as the Blackhawks sit at the bottom of the Central, but things are turning around thanks to Bedard's return. Just try and come for his job.

When everything around you starts with two

Two little heads are poking from the stroller

Congrats to Cale Makar, who welcomed twin boys this week . The new D-pairing is about the most exciting thing going on for the Avalanche at the moment. The team had cooled off a bit with a 4-2-1 after a hot start, but dad strength can change anything.

Maybe Blue Jackets head coach Rick Bowness should take his team on a field trip to Cleveland and show them the Monsters' AHL facility. This is where many of them deserve to be playing after another hapless start to the season in Columbus.

You keep on bragging about your so-called crew

We know just how capable the Stars are of maintaining a consistently great hockey team, but what's it going to take to get past the Conference Finals and finally go all the way?

The pressure is on this year: Is Mikko Rantanen's prime behind him, or will he muster up the production we expect out of him? Can Jake Oettinger keep up his great start and prove he's an elite NHL goalie? Is Jason Robertson a goner at the end of his one-year deal?

And struck me down when I kissed that ring

Things are rough in Detroit, to say the least. The situation has become so bleak that we've got Michigan politicians on all sides weighing in . It's tough to see them coming back from Larkin's trade request and the ensuing captaincy removal, and one wonders if they should just burn it down at this point.

Don't you address me unless it's with four letters

Family Ties - Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar

Connor McDavid is off to a GOAT start, leading the league with a whopping 18 points in seven games, a plus-15 rating (on the Oilers, mind you!), and averaging 23:54 minutes per game.

Evan Bouchard is right behind him with 15 points and a plus-14 in seven games.

The Oilers as a whole are reflecting these monster performances with a 5-1-1 record and a tie for second in the Pacific.

That's the way we became the Brady bunch

Brady Tkachuk had a quieter start to his Panthers career until making history in a two-game period. His back-to-back natural hat tricks made him the third player in NHL history with consecutive natural hat tricks. They sure made the Panthers fanbase and brother Matthew, who assisted on four of the six goals, sigh with relief.

The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older

Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Time is up for the aging Kings, who don't even look scheduled for their usual first-round exit this year.

It seems like the Quinn Hughes contract talk has quieted down for at least a moment as the Wild keep rising to the top of the Central Division and Kirill Kaprizov keeps shining with a league-leading nine goals. The Wild are living for today, as they should.

It's only in your head, you feel left out or looked down on

Just try your best, try everything you can

And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away

Everything, everything will be just fine

Everything, everything will be alright, all right

There isn't going to be much wiggle room in the jam-packed Atlantic Division, and the Canadiens have some work to do in the standings after starting the season 3-3-1. Still, Montreal is headed in the right direction and doing the right things after a rough start.

The Habs are scoring more goals, taking more shots, and closing game-by-game gaps, and they're starting to look like themselves again. If Jakub Dobeš can settle down in net and re-establish himself, everything will be just fine in Montreal.

And even though, there's no way in knowing

'Cause I'm afraid that this complacency is something I can't shake

And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging You to be my escape

Will new Predators GM Chris MacFarland be the escape from complacency they've been begging for for years, or is this team cooked beyond repair? The stars have got to start taking charge, here.

The Chino in this conversation is the Wild, who famously have the third Hughes child. Meanwhile, things are looking up in New Jersey after a 7-1 win over the happy-go-lucky Rangers. Could Quinn look like a Devil if Jack stays healthy and this team finally puts it all together?

Look, Matthew Schaefer isn't totally on his own as he embarks on his sophomore season. He's getting some help from Bo Horvat and Ilya Sorokin, indeed. But they've got the kid averaging over 26 minutes per game as a teenager. The Islanders could find him a bit more help, whether it be more power-play weapons or an upgraded blue line.

I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl

That's fine, I know them all pretty well

But I know sometimes I must get out in the light

Better leave her behind with the kids, they're alright

Artemi Panarin is dancing with another girl — a cougar, might I add — in LA. This was a gigantic change for the Rangers, and it might have been the one they needed to finally shed the vibes of yore. Alexis Lafrenière's got 11 points in nine games, and Adam Fox looks like his old (young) self. The Rangers kids are alright with a solid 6-3-0 start to the season, even without Igor Shesterkin.

We'll clearly have to see how they respond after a 7-1 loss to their rival Devils, but one game is one game in the grand scheme.

Everything is changing and I never wanna go back to the way it was (The way it was)

I'm finding who I am and who I am from here on out is gonna be enough

Tkachuk might be putting up back-to-back hat tricks in Florida, but you know who's still atop the division? The Ottawa freakin' Senators. They'll take the 6-2-0 start, the emergence of Tim Stützle, and some stellar work from Linus Ullmark every time.

And I know things changed, but I'm not sure when

Convinced myself that I'm brave enough for all of this, well

I lost track of the time zones, I'd call, but you know

And the late nights and the long drives start to get to me

I spent this year as a ghost and I'm not sure what I'm looking for

Welcome to the show, kids! Yikes. We expected some regression from last year's playoff run, and we expected some growing pains for the kids.

All of that considered, the Flyers are still off to the worst start in the Eastern Conference, at a winless 0-6-3 with a -22 goal differential. It might take more than a first-line center to fix this mess, and even acquiring that piece of the puzzle is going to be a challenge.

Even Sidney Crosby has to get older, and at 39 years old, we're starting to see it. The Penguins are sort of mid by design right now, as they've held on for one more year of opportunity for Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Erik Karlsson, and Kris Letang. Will they make the most of it with a push around American Thanksgiving?

Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see

Macklin Celebrini's popularity has broken the containment of the hockey world, and that's a wonderful thing for the player, the Sharks, and the game as a whole. Still, there is a lot of pressure that comes with this level of fame, and it's fascinating to see him navigate it all as a 20-year-old.

The Sharks have some work to do to climb up the Pacific rankings after their 4-3-0 start to the season, but Celebrini's doing well so far with eight points in five games since returning from injury.

There's a boy I know, he's the one I dream of

Looks into my eyes, takes me to the clouds above, mmm-hmm

Oh, I lose control, can't seem to get enough, uh-huh

When I wake from dreaming, tell me, is it really love?

Is Seattle's better-than-expected 5-2-1 start legit? The goal differential of nine is a positive indication, as is the team-wide production. I'd still like to see a bit more consistency from Shane Wright and Matty Beniers.

So far, so great for Mason McTavish, who's leading the Blues with five goals and eight points in seven games.

The Lightning are laughing at their grave all the way to a 5-2-0 start, but is Nikita Kucherov slowing down? The reigning Hart Trophy champion has eight points in seven games, which is obviously great, but it's not up to snuff with the top of the league's scorers right now. Buckle up!

So if you wanna kick it, then I'm with it, I've been there

Felt the reeling, done the healing, said the curses and prayers

When the fever turns a dreamer into a pathetic ghost

Auston Matthews was Patient Zero of fame and pressure for the modern Leafs, and now we've got Gavin McKenna as the latest No. 1 overall pick to come in and deal with it. Good thing Matthews is still around and very much still dealing with all of the above; his pointers will be helpful to usher in the McKenna era.

All that talk of the Avalanche, the Wild, and the Stars — and look who's atop the wild, wild Central? It's the Mammoth: their soaring power play and their full-team effort! We should be excited to see how this team moves the rest of the season.

They told me all of my cages were mental

I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere

Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here

Elias Pettersson is having a solid point-per-game start to the season. Yay. We can't help but peer over at Bo Horvat on the Islanders. The Canucks may or may not "have a lot of regrets about that."

Maybe we've outgrown all the things that we once loved

A show of hands from those in this audience of one

Yes, this is a snarky attendance joke in light of Vegas' recent empty house drama.

The team is off to an amazing start, leading the Pacific at 7-2-0. Jack Eichel is off to a career start with five goals and 16 points in nine games; meanwhile, Mark Stone had a hat trick in one period alone on Thursday. All jokes aside, the Golden Knights are back and ready to fight for another Stanley Cup.

Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing

Will we be treated to one final Summer of Ovi before The Great 8 hangs them up?

The Capitals have some work to do at 4-3-0 to start the season, trailing behind the soaring Rangers and Hurricanes in the Metro. But Wednesday's 5-4 thriller, in which Cole Hutson prevailed over brother Lane's Canadiens, was a good start.

It's Not Right, But It's Okay - Whitney Houston

It's still very early in the season, but as Connor Hellebuyck sits out and loses $38,660 per day , the Jets have been doing just fine. Keep in mind that even with Hellebuyck, they weren't expected to have a great season. They're 4-1-2 and third in the Central, currently sitting ahead of the Avalanche. They'll take it.