I kid the folks at Rogers Sports and Media. That headline is just our little joke here at brioux.tv. Please don’t raise my cable bill. Still, if the last Canadian team left in the hunt for the Stanley Cup loses Game Five of the third round Friday night, Rogers-owned Sportsnet’s biggest draw will be gone.
Can the Montreal Canadiens ride a plucky rookie goalie all the way to the Stanley Cup final? First, Jakub Dobeš and his teammates will have to get past their NHL Eastern Conference Final opponent, the Carolina Hurricanes. Puck drops Thursday night at 8pm on CBC, Sportsnet and TVA and on TNT and truTV in the
The Montreal Canadiens — the one team remaining in the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs — continues to win over hockey fans from all across Canada. Take a look at the overnight estimated data from Game Four of the Canadiens 2nd Round series against the Buffalo Sabres (and their Canadian anthem-singing fans). That game on Tuesday,
With lottery-lucky Toronto Maple Leafs sidelined throughout these NHL playoffs, Rogers-owned Sportsnet had just three of seven hometown Canadian teams to bank on in Round One of these Stanley Cup playoffs. Only one team, the Montreal Canadiens, advanced. (They open the second round against the Buffalo Sabres tonight at 7 p.m.) How much does Sportsnet
Uh oh. After going up three games to none, The Toronto Maple Leafs lost their second in a row and were shut out Tuesday in the fifth game of their round one playoff with the Ottawa Senators. Which means … one of these Canadian teams will be eliminated. That fifth game drew an overnight, estimated
The second game of the Stanley Cup Round One game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators easily won Tuesday night, ratings wise, on broadcast networks in Canada. An overnight, estimated total of 1,473,000 Canadians watched the game on Sportsnet National, with another 809,000 catching it on the main CBC network. That easily
Ralph Mellanby was the guy who put Don Cherry in Coach’s Corner. The Hamilton, Ont. native died last Saturday, Jan. 29, at 87. Raised near Windsor, Ont., the innovative executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada was one of the country’s most influential television broadcasters. Back in the ’60s, he was quick to embrace modern
According to preliminary data from Numeris, an average minute audience of around 3.6 million watched the UEFA EURO 2020 final on TSN and CTV Sunday. That makes the final match, according to a network release, the most-watched live streaming event in TSN history with more than 425,000 live streaming video starts. Certainly, Italy (the eventual