Listen to Minnesota Wild playoff anthem ‘Raise The Cup’ before it’s too late

The Minnesota Wild’s playoff journey could end on Thursday night, which is a shame, because that means KFAN won’t be able to create another high-energy crowd pump-up song like “Raise the Cup.”

Wait, check that: It’s actually a nap-inducing country noodle that doesn’t make you want to raise the Cup but flip it over and use it as a stool as you drink a Budweiser and think about ‘Merica.

Sample prose:

“Raise the Cup/

You got a voice/

Let’s make some noise/

Cheer for our boys/

Suter and Marco stop a goal.

“Raise the Cup/

Ready Koivu/

Nino and Stew

Cooke and Coyle too/

Zucker, Brodin and Leopold.”

So … lists then. There’s another one later in the song where it appears the lyricist just dropped all pretense of this being a song about the Wild and just started listing hockey things. 

But at the very least the song has an equal number of references to Matt Cooke and God, maintaining spiritual equilibrium.