 "Hockey Scores" quickly became the most viewed and among the highest rated of the contest's
submissions, though the CBC would not make the decision based on popularity alone.Although he described the song in his original Something Awful post as "mostly cat and sheep sounds, baby cries, and gunshots/explosions", Aubé has more recently called it "a beautiful theme encompassing the heart of hockey", claiming that the gunshots symbolize the
hard-hitting nature of ice hockey, the cat noises symbolize the grace and agility required by hockey players, and the baby sounds represent Canadians' childlike wonder at watching hockey.Other reviewers have called it "absolutely and irrefutably atrocious".