Wednesday October 8, 2014 – 10am
Posted Oct 8, 2014 03:17:49 PM.
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10:00- The NHL is BACK!!!!
10:00am- Tim Hicks, Canadian Country Music Star
10:15am- Mark Messier, NHL Legend, Rogers NHL Ambassador
10:15am- Jeff Marek, Sportsnet Hockey Analyst, Host of Hockey Central
The puck drops tonight on the 2014-15 N-H-L season. Not only does a new season begin, but a new era in broadcasting as Rogers kicks off year 1 of their 12-year broadcasting deal with the league. It was the better part of a century ago that Canadians were introduced to the hockey broadcast. We fell for it quickly and we still like it. The view has improved considerably in the 91 years since, and Canadians will get a chance to see the game as its never been shown before beginning tonight when they get to see what a $5.2-billion investment in hockey broadcasting looks like when the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens faceoff for Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey. Some things won’t change-cannonading drives, thundering hits and rapier-like saves are timeless – but it will be different. “We’ve always wanted to show hockey this way,” says Gord Cutler, Rogers senior vice president for NHL production, the man who has been trying to recalibrate hockey broadcasting since Rogers bought the NHL rights for Canada. “We’ve always wanted to do more, show more, but we couldn’t do it. But technology has caught up. We can execute what we’ve seen in our imaginations.” There are cameras on referees and a camera – the sky cam – that races along a rail at the speed of Phil Kessel, providing a bird’s-eye view of the developing play. There are cameras the size of water bottles on the benches that should capture every profane sputter of spittle and a star cam that focuses on the very best, all the time, waiting to capture their magic even before they manage to conjure it. It’s not cheap – the sky cam alone was $1.7-million and the plan is to have them in all seven of the Canadian team’s arenas – but that’s the price of giving Canadians something that hasn’t been seen before.
10:30- Maple Leafs versus Canadiens
Blair Adams, 570News Web Editor, Pick 6 Podcast Member, Habs fan
For the sixth straight year, it will be Toronto playing Montreal in the first game of the night. The game is set for 7 p-m Eastern time at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. Montreal won three of five games against the Leafs last season.
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