After receiving nearly 15,000 entries, the song "Canadian Gold,"
written by an elementary school teacher has been
voted as the new anthem for CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada."
Colin Oberst's winning composition was up against "Sticks to the Ice," a piece by 13-year-old Toronto composer Robert Fraser Burke, the Canadian Press reported.
Oberst and Burke stood side-by-side as Don Cherry announced the Anthem Challenge winner to a live studio audience in Toronto. The song was then played to kick off the network's Saturday night NHL doubleheader.
The contest in which the voting public picked a song to replace the original "Hockey Night in Canada" theme was created after CBC lost the rights to the iconic tune earlier this year. The original song is now the property of TSN.
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