So the Canucks are set to play their first home game after going on the road for four. Since we’ll be seeing a game in GM Place, chances are good we should be hearing a now familiar sound should the Canucks score a goal.

I am, of course, talking about the Woo. Started up by the Canucks sound guy, DJ Dave, the ‘Woo’ was apparently some sort of in-joke involving a soundboard based off of ‘Runnin’ With The Devil’ by the David Lee Roth fronted version of Van Halen. Despite widespread belief, it’s not an imitation of wrestler Ric Flair’s infamous ‘Woo!’ which has caught on down in Carolina for Hurricanes games (Flair himself calls Charlotte, NC home.) I originally thought it was a tribute to the woos Alex Burrows and some other members of the Canucks were doing last season after wins, but apparently not.

Lots of people hate the Woo. They are wrong, and what’s worse, they hate everything that is good and pure in the world. They are people of questionable moral fibre and I doubt their commitment to Sparkle Motion the Canucks. But that’s not important. What is important is that the Woo is something that I like and that it’s something that may actually be useful for the Canucks.