Brown: “We were keeping the whole thing hush-hush, but the reality is we were out for dinner in San Jose, and there was a girl playing piano, and she started singing ‘Pink Pony Club,’ and all the boys were bobbing their heads. We needed a new win song, so we were like, ‘This song is great.’ None of us had really heard it. We won the next game, put it on after, and that was it.

“The boys were having fun with it. Everyone was asking about it during the playoffs, ‘What’s the story?’ We kept our lips sealed and figured leaving it to the imagination was funnier.”

Shannon: “So this was your version of what the Blues did with ‘Gloria’ (during their Stanley Cup run in 2019)?”

Brown: “Yeah, I think so,” (laughs) “but to be honest, after we lost, I can’t listen to it anymore. It’s wiped off now. It stings.”

Brown: “The thing about Edmonton is that every single person is invested in the Oilers. Toronto is a hockey mecca with a massive fanbase, but it is not the whole city. In Edmonton, it really felt like everyone was an Oilers fan. That was pretty cool.

“I grew up in Toronto, so playing for the Leafs, I mean, it’s incredible. I used to go to Leafs games as a kid. It’s a little more corporate, the Toronto games, but still incredible. You go to an Edmonton game, you know everyone’s driving in from all over, everybody’s got a jersey on, it’s just a different feeling. Whether one’s better than the other, I don’t think so. It’s just different, but I’m very privileged to have played in both spots.”