Hockey Night in Canada

This is by far the best hockey programme ever. Not only does it have complete coverage of hte leagues that night, but soemtimes, they manage to put two games on at once, as they swap between the two (i've seen it happen, Canucks vs. someone i dont remember, and Flames vs. Someone i dont remember). They also have intelligent sports commentators and most of them have played the sport so they know what htey're tlaking about. In addition, they're impartial so its enjoyable for fans across canada, with the exception of Don Cherry who's completely bias to the Leafs, but he's still funny...at times.

Every Saturday night during hockey season, The Canadian broadcasting corporation (CBC for short) shows 1 or 2 hockey games involving Canadian teams. sometimes the Canadian teams play the American teams, but never in the regular season (only during the playoffs) will 2 American teams play each other on CBC.

Don cherry is a classic color commentator, his big mouth keeping him a contract with CBC. Ron McLean is also the perfect play-by-play commentator, with great enthusiasm.

The Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Ottawa senators, Montreal Canadians, and Toronto maple leafs are the teams that are televised today. in the past, there was also Winnipeg, Quebec, and a few others.

Hockey night in Canada prepares to enter it's 54th season, and i expect great stuff from it.

I've never even seen a complete show and I can tell you that this is the best hockey show ever. I wish I had a satellite just so I could watch this show on Saturday Nights. Every Canadian hockey fan watches "Hockey Night in Canada" and every American Hockey fan only wishes "NHL Tonight" could compare. There is no comparison to what our neighbors to the north have.

There are many reasons why, at 37 years old, I am still single. Perhaps it is because I am too picky. Perhaps because I am not willing to put up with the probing and BS of dating.

Or perhaps, it's because I'd much rather spend a Saturday night watching Hockey Night In Canada than going out trolling for women who aren't watching Hockey Night In Canada themselves. This is a classic catch-22: I can't meet new women because I'm watching great play-by-play from Bob Cole and Harry Neal, as well as expert commentary on Satellite Hotstove, and of course, the tandem of show host Ron MacLean and studio commentator Don Cherry, who's first period intermission segment "Coaches Corner" is the best 5 minutes of the week; and if I were to go out and seek out women when I would much rather be home watching Hockey Night In Canada, the women out there obviously don't like hockey, or else they'd be at home watching Hockey Night In Canada, and who would want to be involved with a woman that doesn't like hockey? So, unless the people at the CBC website can come up with a dating service designed for men and women in North America who's first requirement is to be Hockey Night In Canada viewers, I'm afraid I will continue to be single...

In all seriousness, not having hockey was awful last year. Hey NHL and NHLPA, don't do it ever again. God bless hockey.

This is a tradition in Canada.

It is much better than anything that ESPN or Fox has. We got Ron McLean and Don Cherry to ramble on at the intermission. This show's theme song is pretty much the other national anthem in Canada and it has been a tradition for over fifty years.