What is the importance of the team chant in The Wolves: A Play?

As the play concludes, the team's powerfully intensifying, wildness-embracing chant of "We Are the Wolves" functions as an evocation of defiance in the face of death; of mutual support, perhaps even affection; and a claiming of team identity. Given the fact that the team is named "The Wolves", itself a symbolic evocation of fierceness and hunger and wildness, the chant evokes these qualities in the members of the team, a moment of particular significance given that they are all struggling to move forward into the world, into their lives, and into themselves (in other words: come of age) in the aftermath of the death of one of their own.