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Is anyone else sick of the CBC?

      

Garth McLennan

Editor in C

ne of the staples of Canadian
culture for decades has been the

institution that is Hockey Night
in Canada. For as long as just about
anyone can remember, Saturday evenings
throughout Canada have been a hallmark
of typically excellent hockey games
involving the six Canadian NHL squads.
Over the years, but in the last decade
especially, HNIC has become the NHL
equivalent of the NFL’s Monday Night
Football.

However, there is a problem that
the CBC and HNIC has developed over
time. You see, the CBC, the producers
of HNIC, seem to forgotten what the
words in CBC actually mean. Despite
being officially dubbed the ‘Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation’, the CBC,
and the outlet that the vast majority of
Canadians identify them with, Hockey
Night in Canada, has become, month after
month and year after year, much less the
‘Canadian’ Broadcasting Corporation and
much more the “Toronto” Broadcasting
Corporation.

Take the scheduling put out by
HNIC week after week on Saturday
nights. The prime time slots are always,
always reserved for the Toronto Maple
Leafs. Always. It doesn’t matter how
bad the Leafs are, and for years on
end now they’ ve been very, very bad,
Toronto always gets the starring slots on
Saturdays.

Yes, I understand that the CBC is
attempting to reach a larger television
audience and that there are obviously
more people in Ontario then there are
in B.C., at this point in HNIC’s history,

 

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they don’t need to worry about ratings.
They’ re going to draw in millions of
viewers’ week in and week out regardless
of which Canadian clubs step on the ice.

What frustrated me to no end is the
fact that the Vancouver Canucks, one
of the most elite teams in hockey this
year, once again play second fiddle to
the Leafs, despite being an infinitely
superior club and playing a much more
entertaining and exciting brand of hockey.
If Vancouver was a bottom feeding squad
(like, oh say, Toronto), who played like
the New Jersey Devils then I would
understand completely why there aren’t
featured on HNIC every Saturday. But
they’re not. They’re a ridiculously
enjoyable team to watch and they’re one
of the leading Stanley Cup favourites
this year. But do they make the leading
Saturday night lineup? Nope, that goes
to the Leafs who recently endured the
longest goalless drought in the NHL since
1927 (not a joke).

Take the recent Saturday night game
between Toronto and Vancouver. It was a
great game and a lot of fun to watch and
the Leafs were WAY more competitive
then they should have been, but go back
and have a listen to the commentary,
which of course, comes from the Toronto
announcers. All game the Canuck players
were being accused of diving, and at one
point in the third period after a Vancouver
goal a video compilation was put together
of all the instances where the Toronto
commentators thought Canucks were
diving, even when they clearly weren’t. It
was just pure garbage.

It’s just sickening, and it needs to
stop. The whole country is beyond tired
of the endless Toronto love in. To the
CBC, at least give it a rest until Toronto is

 

 

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