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From the Toronto Star:
CBC announced its slate of television shows for the 2009-2010 season, and two new reality competitions will be among the first new series Canadians will see.
The fall premieres includes Battle with the Blades, a combination of skating and Dancing with the Stars. It teams up top figure skaters with hockey stars and culminates in weekly pairs figure skating performances.
Oh please, please let the “hockey stars” in question be actual NHL players. Zdeno Chara lifting his partner over his head. Brian Campbell working gracefully and flawlessly through a footwork sequence. Mike Richards lowering his partner into a death spiral. This could end up being the greatest thing ever seen on television.
Tonight is the first ever playoff game in Columbus. In the spirit of Puck Daddy’s post about other teams’ first ever home playoff dates, I’m thinking back to what it was like in Ottawa when the Sens played the Sabres in that first playoff series. I didn’t get to go to any of the games, but I remember listening to one on the radio on my walkman (yes!) as I walked home from a 67’s game. The Sens won in overtime, and I stopped and cheered right in the middle of Bank St.
Let’s go Jackets!
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I was at the first home game against Buffalo in ‘97, and I can tell you nothing I’d experienced before or since can match the absolute batshit-insane bedlam inside SBP when the Sens came out of the dressing room. Not even the first home game in the Finals. No, really. It was as close to religious ecstasy as I’ll ever get.
Oh…and, um…sorry about the Jackets.
/awkward silence ensues
Those were good times for our young franchise! Except of course when the Sens eventually lost the series, and I just remember thinking that felt like the entire city had been deflated.
Aww, poor Jackets. The Sens’ first foray into playoffs was far more exciting than this series has been. I feel badly for the people who’ve waited such a long time only to get this crapfest.