Hockey Night in Canada

TV Series
1952–

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The premiere Canadian prime time NHL ice hockey telecast program.The premiere Canadian prime time NHL ice hockey telecast program.The premiere Canadian prime time NHL ice hockey telecast program.

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Awards
- 14 wins & 17 nominations

Episodes63

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Pat Quinn

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Tara Slone

Self - On-Air Contributor

Jarome Iginla

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Ed Belfour

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Markus Näslund

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Tie Domi

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Eric Lindros

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Ryan Smyth

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Daniel Alfredsson

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Todd Bertuzzi

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Vancouver Canucks

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Calgary Flames

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Toronto Maple Leafs

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Ed Jovanovski

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Trevor Linden

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Christine Simpson

Self - Host

Joe Sakic

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Miikka Kiprusoff

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One of the popular features during the show's intermissions was "Coach's Corner" with former NHL hockey player and coach, Don Cherry, where he would give colour commentary to the games. He was also prone to giving controversial and inflammatory tangential comments such as insulting European players, players who wore face masks as well as activists concerned with sports-related safety and injuries such as concussions as well as non-sports related environmental activists like David Suzuki. Cherry finally went too far on Nov. 9, 2019, when he made comments many interpreted as insulting immigrants to Canada for insinuating they were not wearing Remembrance Day poppies in disrespect to Canadian veterans. The distributor of those poppies, the Royal Canadian Legion, denounced those comments and the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council was flooded with complaints. As a result, the producing network of the show, Sportsnet, fired Cherry and "Coach's Corner" was discontinued.

Connections
Featured in Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993)

Soundtracks
The Hockey Theme
(1968-2008)
Written by Dolores Claman
Arranged by Jerry Toth

Hockey Night In Canada set to return this October!

There are many reasons why, at 37 years old, I am still single. Perhaps it is because I am too picky. Perhaps because I am not willing to put up with the probing and BS of dating.

Or perhaps, it's because I'd much rather spend a Saturday night watching Hockey Night In Canada than going out trolling for women who aren't watching Hockey Night In Canada themselves. This is a classic catch-22: I can't meet new women because I'm watching great play-by-play from Bob Cole and Harry Neal, as well as expert commentary on Satellite Hotstove, and of course, the tandem of show host Ron MacLean and studio commentator Don Cherry, who's first period intermission segment "Coaches Corner" is the best 5 minutes of the week; and if I were to go out and seek out women when I would much rather be home watching Hockey Night In Canada, the women out there obviously don't like hockey, or else they'd be at home watching Hockey Night In Canada, and who would want to be involved with a woman that doesn't like hockey? So, unless the people at the CBC website can come up with a dating service designed for men and women in North America who's first requirement is to be Hockey Night In Canada viewers, I'm afraid I will continue to be single...

In all seriousness, not having hockey was awful last year. Hey NHL and NHLPA, don't do it ever again. God bless hockey.