TSN’s hockey experts, as they refer to them, weighed in on their Stanley Cup favorites (or favourites, as it were). Ready?
Question #1: The playoffs open one month from now. Who is your current Stanley Cup favourite: Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Washington, or Vancouver?
Technical issues kept us from recording the TSN feed on Thursday to check out Neil Peart’s take on “The Hockey Song”. Luckily, HockeyWebCast had our backs.
BTW, that drum kit has all 30 NHL logos on it.
Here are TSNs Top 10 NHL Plays Of The Decade. We think you’ll like #1 and #3. Perhaps not so much for #4 … and why haven’t we seen something similar to #6 lately in DC?
via Kukla’s Korner
Per TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Washington Capitals center Michael Nylander is headed to Russia
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 CBC’s award-winning [...]
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 CBC’s award-winning [...]
TSN has been running a “30 Teams in 30 Days” season preview, profiling a different NHL team each day. TSN turned their attention to the Washington Capitals this weekend and, while posting an encouragingly positive assessment, they fall well short of the sort of analysis one would expect from this Canadian outpost of hockey expertise.
Starting [...]
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!
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pucksandbooks: Dear Canada: you can keep Ron MacLean — particularly for attempts at standup comedy.
Gustafsson: Another Versus screwup going to TSN and not CBC . . . Thanks for joining the
program in progress.
pucksandbooks: One of the more under acknowledged aspects of Ovie’s appeal here is his rapport with Capitals’ fans. Notice he directed a personal [...]
Awards and nominations keep coming for the Washington Capitals–and not just to those with the parent club. The Capitals’ 2007 first-round draft pick Karl Alzner has just earned some hardware as a member of the WHL Calgary Hitmen, named both the Western Hockey League’s player of the year and top defenseman:
[Alzner] earned the WHL’s highest [...]
