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Category Archives: Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada in the United States

4 October, 2008

If you have the NHL Network, you’re about to see A LOT more live hockey games.¬† Via Kukla’s Korner: With more live game coverage than ever before, NHL Network today unveiled its U.S. broadcast schedule for the 2008-09 regular season. It includes 75 regular-season games, all in HD. Highlighting the schedule is the inclusion of [...]

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Hockey Night in Canada in the United States

3 October, 2008

If you have the NHL Network, you’re about to see A LOT more live hockey games.¬† Via Kukla’s Korner: With more live game coverage than ever before, NHL Network today unveiled its U.S. broadcast schedule for the 2008-09 regular season. It includes 75 regular-season games, all in HD. Highlighting the schedule is the inclusion of [...]

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Test Your Cherry Comprehension

5 July, 2008

I have to give Jason Plautz credit: this quiz isn’t as easy as I might have supposed. There are actually one or two puzzlers in the bunch; not sure if that says more about Don Cherry or clowns.

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Stephen Colbert Solves the HNIC Theme Controversy

13 June, 2008

Stephen Colbert ruminates on global warming’s impact on the melting ice caps, and what treasures might be unearthed. One that he thinks the U.S. might steal is the HNIC theme. As Colbert puts it, “The theme to ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ makes everything more exciting, especially American things.” Punching beavers in the face! [If the [...]

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The End of an Era

8 June, 2008

It’s the end of the road for the Hockey Night in Canada theme song: After more than 13 months of negotiations, CBC is saddened to announce that a deal has not been reached with the rights holders for an extension of “The Hockey Theme” – CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA theme song. But wait! There’s [...]

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Does Hockey Really Need TV?

20 May, 2008

By now, you’ve probably read accounts of hockey enjoying a significant spike in the sport’s television ratings recently. No doubt you also know of (and admire) hockey’s embrace of alternative media. That union has been a fusion of opportunism, technology, and desperation. Generally, it seems to be working. Still, we’re three years into the Crosby-Ovechkin [...]

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The Color of Success

2 April, 2008

My good friend Eric McErlain didn’t pick a good night to play hookie from the hockey rink. But he doesn’t have much red in his wardrobe anyway. But first thing’s first. I asked for one WaPost columnist to attend Tuesday night and George Solomon sent two, including himself. There were enough Post reporters in attendance [...]

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The Great Outdoors: On Ice-Covered Buffalo Wings and Frostbitten Big Lips

31 December, 2007

My New Year’s wish: that 64,000 of the expected 74,000 fans packing Buffalo’s football stadium tomorrow afternoon for the Winter Classic are Maple Leaf fans donning blue and white Leafs’ sweaters. Give the NHL credit when credit is due: the marketing for tomorrow’s game has been — most particularly by NHL standards — superb. Last [...]

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Leonsis on Bloggers: "They've Become a Legitimate Media Outlet"

18 December, 2007

When it comes to new media and its coverage of the NHL, Ted Leonsis is both visionary and trailblazer, and so it should come as no surprise that his thinking on the matter is anything but static. When “Hockey Night in Canada” came to D.C. a couple of weeks back and profiled the Caps and [...]

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Hockey Night in Canada on Bloggers

2 December, 2007

Our cousins to the north have taken notice of blogging’s impact on coverage of the NHL. Hockey Night in Canada was at the Phone Booth this past week taping a piece on Caps’ bloggers, and it aired tonight. Take a look at the results:

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