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Saturday Night's All Right for Irresponsible Journalism: Thoughts on the Ron Maclean/Alex Burrows controversy

This is obviously a little late to the game, but Dan Murphy weighed in yesterday with his thoughts about Ron Maclean's segment last Saturday on Hockey Night in Canada and it was the first thing I've r...

Bruins will have 8 games on National TV in '09-'10

The NHL released its national television schedule for the upcoming season today. The Bruins will have 8 games air on national television in the U.S. this season, including their season opener agains...

Caps furious at HNIC

CBC producers were told yesterday that cameras not only weren't welcome in the team's dressing room, but the public broadcaster would not be granted between-period interviews during Game 4 of the Ea...

Bob Cole, Harry Neale and the Leafs to be demoted on CBC

Thanks to Matt for pointing this out. This story was broke by William Houston at Globe and Mail Sports a couple of days ago. It appears that there will be some changes to CBC's play-by-play department...

Hockey Night In Canada theme song is finished

From Faceoff.com: A "saddened" CBC formally announced Friday that it is dropping the popular but disputed theme song to Hockey Night in Canada, ending a 40-year tradition that produced what has been d...

CTV acquires rights to Hockey Night in Canada theme song

Toronto, ON - CTV Inc., together with Copyright Music & Visuals, today announced that CTV Inc. has acquired all rights to 'The Hockey Theme' in perpetuity, preserving the song's legacy and ensuring it...

Mad Mike joins Satellite Hotstove

Milbury is a great addition to Satellite Hotstove. He doesn't mince words. Maybe he can beat some sense into those politically correct doofs like Ron MacLean in Mad Mike-fashion. They needed a bit of ...

Melrose calls Strachan a liar

CBC's analyst Al Strachan made a remark (and claimed he had sources) about Lightning owner Len Barrie coaching the players behind coach Barry Melrose's back. Well Melrose has a few choice words for St...

Barenaked Ladies' version of the NHL on TSN Hockey Theme

Why put words to the song? Terrible. The poor song gets defaced even more with this lousy rendition. It doesn't help that I can't stand the BNL in the first place.Simple Plan's version wasn't too bad....

Don Cherry's book

Publishers sent me a handful of books to review this year, and it wasn't a coincidence that Don Cherry's was the first I decided to take a look at. And, against all odds, I'll give it a thumbs up. D...


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