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CBC-TV Anounces "Hockey Night In Canada" Replacement

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Joseph_Gallant

After yesterday's (October 4th) announcement that the first two weeks of the 2012/2013 National Hockey League season have been cancelled due to the ongoing lockout, CBC (which televises Saturday-night NHL games) has announced what they will fill the gap with.

It won't be movies.

It won't be reruns of classic CBC series.

It won't be infomercials ;D .

It won't even be test patterns.

It will rebroadcast classic NHL games from the past that the network originally broadcast.

And fans will get to vote on-line for the classic game that will be rebroadcast.

Montreal Gazette article: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/10/04/fans-can-vote-for-classic-hockey-night-in-canada-games/ .

Fans can vote for games at http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockeynightincanada/yourpick/

As of this writing (3:50 P.M. EDT October 5th), one of the games being considered for rebroadcast on October 13th is the seventh game of a 1979 semifinal series between Boston and Montreal, which until the seventh game of the 2003 American League (baseball) Championship Series, was the most heartbreaking loss in Boston sports history.

Needless to say, I voted against it!!

All kidding aside, hopefully there will only be a week or two of classic game rebroadcasts before the lockout ends and live games return.
 
I remember seeing one of these when I was hanging out near the border during a previous
NHL work stoppage. A black and white kinescope of a Montreal-Toronto game from 1958,
I believe. Very interesting. The between periods interview was with a gentleman who had
been a goaltender for the Ottawa Silver Seven!
 
My vote would be for a rebroadcast of the last time the Leafs got the cup...hopefully it's in Color! :D
 
Yeziknoradio said:
My vote would be for a rebroadcast of the last time the Leafs got the cup...hopefully it's in Color! :D
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That's OK with me! I could watch my cousin win his Cup (Ron Ellis). ;D
 
Yeziknoradio wrote: said:
My vote (for the classic NHL game that would replace the usual Saturday-night "HNIC" live game on CBC-TV) would be for a rebroadcast of the last time the (Toronto Maple) Leafs got the (Stanley) Cup (1967)...hopefully it's in Color!  :D
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I don't know if the game was even broadcast in color.

If my memory serves me correct, I didn't think "Hockey Night In Canada" was regularly broadcast in color until the 1967/68 season, and that some Montreal regular-season  games remained in black-and-white until the 1968/69 season.

The two games that I know for sure from the 1967 Finals that were colorcast were the weekend afternoon games that were also on CBS in the U.S. I don't think the CBC had remote color equipment of it's own in the Spring of 1967; I believe CBS drove a truck up from New York for those games.

It is possible that the CBC used that CBS color truck for the games it broadcast that CBS didn't by driving it on Route 401 between Toronto and Montreal as the series moved between those cities.

Certainly, the 1967 Finals remain the highest-rated NHL telecasts in Canadian TV history since Canada's dominant TV market Toronto (given that one out of every four Canadian residents lived within 50 miles of Toronto) faced-off against Montreal, the other Canadian city then having an NHL club.

(The only sports events on Canadian TV since to draw more viewers than the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals were all international hockey events: The 1972 "Summit Series" between an NHL all-star team and the Soviet national team; the 1987 Canada Cup finale between Canada and the USSR; and the championship games of the men's hockey tournaments at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics; I believe the 2010 Olympic hockey finale holds the record for the most-watched program in Canadian TV history)

Those numbers won't be challenged until the next time the Leafs get to the Finals.

Perhaps it was appropriate that the 1967 Finals were between the Leafs and Canadiens, given that it was the 100th anniversary year of Canada's independence. When it ended, Leafs fans were able to tell-off Montrealers by saying "You may have a World's Fair (Expo '67), but we've got the Cup!".
 
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