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The 2001– 2002 hockey season marked the 50th season for Hockey Night in Canada. Legendary announcers Foster Hewitt, son Bill Hewitt , Danny Gallivan , Dick Irvin , Bob Cole, and former NHL player (veteran of one game) and coach Don Cherry have been the voices of HNIC over the past 50 years, bringing the games of the NHL into houses across Canada. Having once been anchored by broadcasters Wes McKnight , Ward Cornell , Jack Dennett , Ted Darling and Dave Hodge , the show is now hosted by Ron MacLean.
Hockey Night in Canada is aired in English on the CBC every Saturday evening during the regular National Hockey League season, where two games are consecutively aired live. Radio-Canada (simulcasting with RDS) airs La Soirée du hockey, featuring Montreal Canadiens games on the weekend in FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to.
The first game is usually played in the East, and is called by Cole and Harry Neale . Critics of the show say that Toronto Maple LeafsThe Toronto Maple Leafs are a National Hockey League team based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded 1917- 1918 Formerly known as Toronto Arenas ( 1917- 1919), Toronto St. Patricks ( 1919- 1926) Arena Air Canada Centre (capacity 19,800) Uniform colours blue, whit games have aired too often in this time slot, to the exclusion of the Ottawa SenatorsThe Ottawa Senators are an ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada. They play in the North-American National Hockey League. Founded: 1992- 1993 (franchise awarded December 6, 1990) :Arena: Corel Centre (capacity 18,500) :Uniform colours: black, red, gold, and Montreal Canadiens, but the CBC says with budget cutbacks and the relatively national popularity of the Maple Leafs, that Toronto games will make the most money for them.
The second game is generally from a western venue, and is called by Chris Cuthbert and Greg Millen . Usually the second game features the Vancouver CanucksThe Vancouver Canucks are a professional National Hockey League ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded 1970 Arena General Motors Place Uniform colours Blue, red and silver Logo design A stylized "C", consisting of an orca breaking o, Calgary FlamesThe Calgary Flames are a National Hockey League team based in Calgary, Alberta. Founded 1972 Formerly Known As Atlanta Flames 1972- 1980 Arena Pengrowth Saddledome Uniform colours Home: Red with Black, White and Yellow trim; Road: White with Red, Yellow a or Edmonton OilersThe Edmonton Oilers are a National Hockey League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. Founded 1972, a member of the World Hockey Association. Joined the NHL in 1979. Formerly known as Alberta Oilers (1972-1973) Arena Rexall Place Uniform colours Copper and mi; but on some occasions it will be an eastern Canadian team playing one from the western United States.
Many playoff games, regardless of the day of the week, are also aired; this gives the CBC an unusual program schedule from late March through early June. All playoff games involving Canadian teams are aired by CBC, though not always on a national basis.
The famous theme song, "The Hockey Theme", was written in 1968 by Dolores Claman and has been referred to as Canada's second national anthemA national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a country's government as their state's official national song. During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the rise of the national state, most count.
Due to the disruption of the 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co– 2005 season (caused by a labour dispute), CBC needed to replace the dense hockey schedule with alternative programming. They chose to run a series of feature films; this schedule has been officially titled Movie Night in Canada.