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Vancouver Canucks
Mark Donnelly sang the national anthem for the NHL team since 2001.
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Four teams are now valued at more than $1 billion each.
Richard Loney began singing the anthem during the Canucks' first NHL season in 1970-71.
"First you're lighting fires, now you're wasting water!"
The team tweeted a photo from its training camp of some prospects building a small campfire.
"Ah, you are from Vancouver!"
"I said to myself, 'I'm not gonna quit.'"
Ah, the feeling of salt in the wound.