GRAND RAPIDS – Ask around the Griffins’ locker room – or shoot, anyone within the organization, from the support staff to the front office – and chances are if they do not have their own video of the performance, they have at least seen it.



The lucky ones witnessed it firsthand.



Veteran defenseman Brian Lashoff didn’t think to capture the moment on his cell phone. He was too entranced at the time.



See, the Griffins have a tradition of making the rookies – even those who are newbies to their organization – sing a Christmas carol at the team’s annual holiday party in late December. Some guys chuckle their way through it. Some uncomfortably mumble through a stanza or two, hoping to blend in with the rest of the uninitiated.



And then there are players like Vili Saarijarvi, who not only belts out a rousing rendition of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” he does it with...