CTV ran Power Play from 1998 to 2000, a Canadian television drama series. Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, served as the setting for the series' filming. As Brett Parker, the Hamilton Steelheads' general manager, the episode featured Michael Riley as a former New York City sports agent turned NHL general manager. Parker's love/hate connection with the sport, the team, and his supervisor at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed (played by Kari Matchett), was one of the series' main through lines. In addition to Gordon Pinsent, who played team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale, and Al Waxman were also in the cast. Modernized "The Hockey Song" played in part by Connors himself and then by Rusty was used as the theme song for this television series, which premiered in 2009. The show was shown briefly on the US network UPN in1999, but it was pulled after only two episodes. US viewers saw the second episode, which has the distinction of being the lowest-rated prime-time TV episode ever telecast on any US network.
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CTV ran Power Play from 1998 to 2000, a Canadian television drama series. Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, served as the setting for the series' filming. As Brett Parker, the Hamilton Steelheads' general manager, the episode featured Michael Riley as a former New York City sports agent turned NHL general manager. Parker's love/hate connection with the sport, the team, and his supervisor at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed (played by Kari Matchett), was one of the series' main through lines. In addition to Gordon Pinsent, who played team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale, and Al Waxman were also in the cast. Modernized "The Hockey Song" played in part by Connors himself and then by Rusty was used as the theme song for this television series, which premiered in 2009. The show was shown briefly on the US network UPN in1999, but it was pulled after only two episodes. US viewers saw the second episode, which has the distinction of being the lowest-rated prime-time TV episode ever telecast on any US network.
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