Throwback Thursday: ‘Hockey Sock Rock’

The “Hockey Sock Rock” features then-New York Rangers players Phil Esposito (on lead vocals), Ron Duguay, Dave Maloney and John Davidson. Since this “music video” was shot in 1979 as a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, all four have enjoyed varying degrees of visibility — Esposito as a GM and TV personality in Tampa, Davidson as president of the St. Louis Blues (a position he’s leaving this week), Maloney as the New York Rangers’ color commentator and Duguay as a Rangers TV analyst on the MSG Network.

My favorite comment among those left on YouTube: “if you put it in hd, you can actually hear their dignity being torn in half.”

It just melts the lockout blues away …

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J.P. Hoornstra
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J.P. Hoornstra is a writer based in Southern California.

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