Given that three fifths of Tangleweed are current or former hockey players (Billy, Kip, and Scott), we thought you would enjoy this collision of music and hockey in the form of correspondence with the band Five for Fighting.

It comes from my friend Carl ‘R’ Knorr, who heard the extraordinarily whimpy song ‘Superman’ played at a Cleveland Lumberjacks hockey game. He was astonished to learn that the perpetrators of this apalling work of musical wussery were a band named for the most beloved penalty in hockey: Five for Fighting. Carl, fine American that he is, fired off an email to the band demanding to an explanation. But then something happened that he really didn’t expect. They wrote him back.

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