The NHL on TSN has been running promos and cuing up games through the postseason with the use of Filter's breakthrough song "Hey Man, Nice Shot". I'm not going to debate that the song is terrific but the choice of it for a playoff campaign is a bit peculiar.
First of all the song is 14 years old, which makes it more appropriate for the play list that the baby boomers who program the music for the NBA on ABC use and secondly and most importantly the song is about suicide. And it's not like the song's message isn't clear, it's quite common knowledge that this song is about suicide, and specifically the public suicide of a U.S. politician who shot himself in the head on live TV. Good times!
TSN has used the "One Shot" slogan to go with the song but unless they are just taking the phrase "Sudden Death" too literally I'm not sure why they couldn't have found another song without such a negative and strong connotation.
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