‘Is this for real?’ Oilers fans help sing U.S. anthem after microphone fails
EDMONTON — Canadian country singer Brett Kissel, decked out in an Oilers jersey and carrying a guitar, stepped onto the ice at Rogers Place on Sunday night to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” before Edmonton’s NHL playoff game against the Anaheim Ducks.
But as he began to sing it, no one could hear him.
“I’m thinking to myself, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me! Is this for real?’ And that’s when the nerves set in,” Kissel recounted Monday.
After two tries, he threw his hands in the air to conduct the crowd, who obliged by bellowing out, “Oh, say can you see . . “