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9 unusual facts about Hockey Night in Canada


2014 Heritage Classic

The game will be televised nationally in Canada on CBC and nationally in the United States on NBCSN.

At Transformation

A 90-second clip of the song premiered during the opening segment of Hockey Night in Canada on May 12, 2012.

Chico Resch

He actually began broadcasting during his playing days, often working as an analyst for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada in the playoffs after his team had been eliminated.

Fragile Bird

The song was used for Hockey Night in Canada's intro for game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins.

Frank Caprice

In his starting debut against the Edmonton Oilers on Hockey Night in Canada, Caprice earned first-star honours in a 3-2 Canucks victory.

Guy Carbonneau

On September 17, 2009, Carbonneau joined on as an analyst for CBC Sports Hockey Night in Canada.

Howard Cable

Cable composed and arranged the original theme for the Hockey Night in Canada television broadcast, The Saturday Game which opened the broadcast from 1952 until 1968.

North Park Secondary School

Cassie Campbell, former Team Canada Women's Ice Hockey captain, current anchor on Hockey Night in Canada on CBC.

Paul Rosen

After commentator Don Cherry told the thief to drop the gold medal in a mailbox during his Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, the medal turned up at a postal sorting station in Toronto and was returned to Rosen.


Easter Epic

With national television audiences watching in both the United States on ESPN (with Mike Emrick and Bill Clement on the call) and in Canada on Hockey Night in Canada (with Bob Cole and Harry Neale on the call), Game 7 began shortly after 7:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Mississauga Civic Centre

Mississauga resident Don Cherry who is most notable for being on Hockey Night In Canada and a Canadian icon added fuel to the fire when he stated that the new City Hall reminded him of his home town Kingston, Ontario because it looked more like a penitentiary than a City Hall.

Thetford Mines

Thetford Mines was chosen as a top-five finalist for Kraft Hockeyville for 2009 on the February 21, 2009 Hockey Night In Canada "Hockey Day In Canada" special.


see also

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Rendez-vous '87

Carling O'Keefe Breweries assumed advertising rights for the telecasts and the normal host(s) for Hockey Night in Canada in 1987, rookie Ron MacLean and Dave Hodge (before his late season firing) were replaced by Brian Williams.