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CBC Anthem Challenge’s leading entry is awesome
Remember back a month and a half ago when the CBC lost the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song? Well, to make up for this outrage the CBC started a contest called Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenge. Anybody could submit a song that would become the new HNiC theme song. And over 1200 songs have been submitted to date.
But if you look at the entries and sort by rating, you’ll find that only one song has a score higher than 2/5. That song is Hockey Scores:
Like James Mirtle said, “It’s about time bizarre hockey-stick limbed creations got their due.” Damn straight.
[tags]hockey, cbc, hockey night in canada[/tags]
Why Canadians Hate Toronto
The National Post is running a live blog for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The second paragraph reads:
You can read about some of the top prospects here and see what some of the Canadian teams are planning for the draft weekend here.
You’d think that second link would lead to a story about Canada’s NHL teams, right? Maybe a paragraph or two dedicated to each team?
Oh no, not from the Toronto-based National Post. It’s an entire article about the Toronto Maple Leafs.
This is why Canadians hate Toronto.
[tags]nhl, nhl entry draft, national post, toronto, canada[/tags]
SHOCK! OUTRAGE! GNASHING OF TEETH!
Posted by Brad in Hockey, Music, Television on 05 June 2008
From the CBC:
One of this country’s most familiar tunes may have been heard on CBC-TV for the last time Wednesday night when the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins and won the 2008 Stanley Cup.The Toronto agency representing the composer of the theme tune for Hockey Night in Canada says the CBC has declined to enter into a new licensing agreement for the song for next NHL season.
A news release posted on the website of Copyright Music & Visuals quotes company president John Ciccone as saying the CBC’s licence agreement for the hockey theme song ended with the Stanley Cup final.
The CBC “has advised the composer, owner and administrator of the musical composition that it is not prepared to enter into a new licence agreement with respect to the use of the theme,” the release says.
The CBC had no immediate comment Thursday.
The familiar theme music for Hockey Night in Canada was written in 1968 by Dolores Claman, who was raised in Vancouver.
In the news release, Claman expresses her disappointment that her song will no longer be heard in homes across Canada during hockey season.
“I am saddened by the decision of the CBC to drop the Hockey Night in Canada theme after our lengthy history together. I nevertheless respect its right to move in a new direction,” she says.
Copyright Music & Visuals says it had offered the CBC a chance to renew its licence to use her song on terms that were “virtually identical to those that have existed for the past decade.” Each use of the song in the past has cost the broadcaster about $500, the company says.
[tags]cbc, hockey night in canada, Dolores Claman, hockey, nhl[/tags]
Vancouver Canucks New Uniforms
The Vancouver Canucks unveiled their new uniforms today. Incorporating the colours from their original uniforms with the C/orca logo of their most-recent uniforms, the new one is quite nice.
The only issue I have with it is the giant VANCOUVER on the chest. Remember folks, the Canucks play in VANCOUVER.
The uniform just cries out for someone to Photoshop “IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO” over the VANCOUVER.
[tags]vancouver canucks, nhl, hockey, uniforms[/tags]
Canada Day
Posted by Brad in Entertainment, Hockey, Music on 01 July 2007
To celebrate Canada Day, please enjoy this animation:
…and this highlight clip:
…and this commercial:
And for the late-night CBC fans:
[tags]canada day, cbc, log driver’s waltz, national film board, hockey, paul henderson, 1972 summit series, molson, beer, commercial, o canada[/tags]
Woah woah woah
So the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup tonight. The New York Times is saying:
This is not just the first Stanley Cup in Anaheim history. It is also the first Stanley Cup ever won by a team on the West Coast.
Slow down there big city. The Stanley Cup has made it to the West Coast not just once, not twice, but three times. In 1915 the Vancouver Millionaires won the Stanley Cup, in 1917 the Seattle Metropolitans sipped the champagne, and most recently the Victoria Cougars took home the cup in 1925.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Anaheim. You’re definitely not the first West Coast team to bring home the Cup.
Keep Believing.
Bring on the Ducks.
Hockeytown, eh?
So the Detroit Red Wings raised ticket prices for their playoff games (upper-bowl tickets doubled), and consequently fans didn’t show up:
But the sight of so many empty red seats at Joe Louis Arena in the Wings 4-1 victory against the Calgary Flames on Thursday evening was sad. Good old Bud Lynch, the Wings long-time public address announcer, declared the crowd for the series opener at 19,204, which is more than 800 fans from JLA’s 20,066-seat capacity.
Detroit ought to be forced to remove the HOCKEYTOWN logo from their ice for trying to shit on the fans that make Hockeytown what it is.
Stars vs. Canucks, Games One, Two, and Three.
Game One ended in a 4-4 tie. Ten minutes later, Game Two started. It ended in a 0-0 tie. Ten minutes later, Game Three started. Eighteen minutes and six seconds later, the Vancouver Canucks ended the sixth-longest NHL game with a goal from Henrik Sedin off a dandy pass from his brother Daniel.
We managed to see the first four periods, and since I’d only set up our DVR to record an hour of overrun we missed the fifth and sixth. Luckily we switched over to Versus when our recording ran out and started in again at the beginning of the seventh period. Five hours after the game actually started, and at 9pm local time, we got to see the goal live.
It was a record-breaking game, as the Dallas Stars peppered Roberto Luongo with a record 76 shots.
[tags]Vancouver Canucks, Dallas Stars, NHL, hockey, playoffs, Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin, Roberto Luongo[/tags]
Playoffs kick off Wednesday.-
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