Unlike most other sports, when the home team scores a goal in the NHL, a horn of some variety will sound loudly to signify the score. Goal horns accompany the cheering crowd to increase the decibel ...

A hockey goal is so unlike scoring in any other major American sport. It doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as in basketball, or with the gradual march down the field in football. Even a home run ...

In the 1970s, Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz loved the sound of the horn on his yacht and decided to install one in Chicago Stadium, where the Blackhawks played. The horn soon became expected ...

Welcome, readers of The Athletic, to the first of many every-so-often mailbags I intend to write in the coming months and years and millennia. You all submitted scores of questions, and I'll get to as ...

Detroit — Leave it to Red Wings fans. Famously knowledgeable about the hockey they watch — just ask the players, over the years — many also have keenly developed ears, it turns out. And they ...

Have you noticed the goal horn that goes off for your favorite NHL team lately? Maybe you didn't notice because you're too busy celebrating the goal that's scored, and that's the right move. But if ...

A hockey goal is so unlike scoring in any other major American sport. It doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as in basketball, or with the gradual march down the field in football. Even a home run ...

At NHL hockey games, though, the goal song resonates each time the home team puts rips one into the back of the net. You’ve got your train horns, fog horn, boat or ship-like horns, firetruck or a ...