During an extended journey on a coach, Zeev Buium engaged himself by browsing tunes on his mobile device.
This American ice hockey defender sought an ideal scoring tune for the United States squad to utilize at the 2025 World Junior Championships event.
Prior American hockey squads had transformed various popular tracks, vintage rock tunes, and electronic dance hits into spirited goal commemoration anthems. Buium noted that he and his fellow players had conversed about identifying “a track that was less common, more significant, and unprecedented for them.”
The particular composition Buium frequently revisited was a highly successful 1973 rock classic by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lukas Olvestad, Buium’s colleague from the University of Denver, introduced him to it by continuously playing it loudly from his audio system during social gatherings at home.
Over a year subsequently, “Free Bird” progressed from being associated with the World Juniors to the Olympic platform. Both the U.S. national men’s and women’s teams jointly decided to embrace the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic as the piece of music that reverberates through the stadium sound system upon their successful scoring.
