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Maple Leafs Alumni Golf Classic at the Angus Glen Golf Club, Markham On Thursday, June 25th, you can hit the links with some former Maple Leafs at the 2009Toronto Maple Leafs Alumni Golf Classic presented by Rogers.
Second Annual Boston Bruins Ice & Dice Casino Night NHL ON NBC DELIVERS RECORD OVERNIGHT TELEVISION RATING TO OPEN CONFERENCE FINALS OF 2009 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Ratings For Game One Of Chicago/Detroit Series Up 33 Percent Over Last Year NEW YORK (May 19, 2009) Sunday's Western Conference Final, featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings, registered a 2.0 overnight metered market rating, making it the most-watched broadcast of a NHL on NBC game, excluding the NHL Winter Classic and Stanley Cup Final games, since NBC resumed its partnership with the NHL in 2005-06. The rating marked a 33-percent increase over last season's comparable Conference Final game on NBC (Dallas Stars at Detroit, Game Five, May 17, 2008), and is now the highest metered-market rating on a national, over-the-air rightsholder for a Conference Final game in six years (Game One of the Anaheim Ducks/Minnesota Wild, May 10, 2003). Sunday's 2.0/5 rating/share also is up 18 percent from the comparable Sunday Conference Final broadcast on NBC last year (Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins, Game Five, May 18, 2008) which averaged a 1.7/4. Overnight, Sunday's NBC Blackhawks/Red Wings broadcast averaged a 7.7/19 rating/share in Chicago and a16.9/38 in Detroit. Top NHL markets were as follows: Detroit (16.9), Chicago (7.7), Pittsburgh (4.0), Buffalo (3.4), Columbus (2.2) and Denver (1.9). Top non-NHL markets were as follows: Cleveland (3.1), Norfolk (2.6), Charlotte (2.3), Birmingham (2.0), West Palm (2.0), Memphis (1.9) and Providence (1.9). Wall Street Journal Features BlogTalkRadio
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  Vancouver 2010 is a year away but the planning for the makeup of the teams by both the American and Canadian Hockey Executive Groups is well underway. I had a chance to discuss Vancouver 2010 with two of the key executives of each country. What people are saying about USA Hockey. DHS: I'm concerned about, I understand the bottom six top six, but especially matching up with Canada, we seem to be coming up a little on the small side. Our top six are very well skilled, but very small. How do you plan on combatting that? BRIAN BURKE: I'm amazed you could say we're too small when we haven't picked the team yet, but you must be a lot smarter than I am. It's an astute you're right, it's an astute comment. And I will say this, I predict we'll be the smallest and youngest team in the tournament. And I predict that not one cent will be bet on team USA in Vegas. But we're going there to win anyhow. And I don't mind going in the underdog role. If we're small in the top six, we'll have to fill out the bottom six with some beef. What people are saying about Team Canada. DHS: I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about the role Doug Armstrong is playing on the 2010 management team. STEVE YZERMAN: First of all, Doug and I worked together at the previous two men's world championships, and we talked regularly throughout the course of the last two years, and he's been a great asset for me and a great kind of a guy as far as being a former general manager in helping me in the decision making process. And I've found his player assessment to be very good. He's been very enthusiastic. I thought it was important for me to have somebody that's particularly watched a lot of the younger players the last two years. We've watched them together closely and have a good understanding of what they can and can't do and who they are. I thought it was important for me to have him on the staff for continuity just as we move forward. And then when he was a general manager at the world championships, we had debates with Bob Nicholson and Johnny Misley, we had debated what role I would play at the world championships. I felt I wanted the freedom down the stretch here and into the playoffs to not only watch the Red Wings and be around that, but also to focus more on potential Olympians as opposed to watching a lot of guys that were possibly being selected for the world championships. It just allowed me a little bit more freedom. It gives Doug the opportunity to work with a lot of the younger guys that we'll be watching for the world championships and guys that will potentially make it on that Olympic watch list or that are on it. Anyway, we just felt it was good for continuity. He's been there for a couple years. So his role, along with Kevin and Kenny and myself, we're watching players. We're going to do this as a group and put everything together. But two years working with me at the world championships, I thought it was very important. He's put a lot of time in and studied the players, and another set of eyes and another opinion is good for our group. DHS: Just one other question. Do you believe at this point in time that it's going to be an All-NHL team? Do you expect there would be any possibility of someone who's not in the NHL actually making the Canadian squad at this time? STEVE YZERMAN: Based on the players we've watched to date, unless an NHL player were to go and play on one of the European leagues next year, I don't see anyone making the Canadian team from outside the NHL. 
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