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| TSN Celebrates Canada Day - NHL Style, with Free Agent Frenzy Show this Sunday |
| Posted
on Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 06:07 PM |
TSN pays tribute to Canada's favourite pastime on Canada's birthday, as the network turns its attention to hockey and the start of the NHL's free agency period with its first NHL on TSN: Free Agent Frenzy show, airing this Sunday (July 1) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET.
Hosted by James Duthie, Free Agent Frenzy features TSN's team of hockey experts and correspondents in each Canadian NHL city, all of whom will provide breaking news of the day's transactions and instant analysis when the free agent market opens for business at 12 noon ET.
TSN Hockey Insiders Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger, along with play-by-play voice Gord Miller, will work the phones in-studio to break all the signings. Duthie will be joined on the panel by TSN hockey analyst Pierre McGuire, as well as TSN panelist Keith Jones and former Columbus Blue Jackets' GM Doug MacLean, each of whom will offer instant analysis and commentary. Duthie will also conduct live interviews with players, coaches and GMs from around the league, providing viewers with instant updates and reaction.
Dave Hodge will be joined in-studio by the panel from his Sunday morning show, TSN The Reporters With Dave Hodge (Steve Simmons, Michael Farber and David Naylor), each of whom will provide opinions and analysis throughout the day.
From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, TSN has live coverage of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: LENOX Industrial Tools 300. Throughout the race, TSN will provide updates of all NHL transactions. Following the NASCAR race at 6 p.m. ET, a special 1-hour edition of Free Agent Frenzy will provide a recap and analysis of all of the day's activities.
Augmenting TSN and TSN Broadband's live coverage of Free Agent Frenzy, TSN.ca will have a free agent tracker that can be accessed from both its main page and the site's NHL page. The tracker will provide an updated list of every free agent signing, along with all other transactions made by teams this off-season. In addition, TSN.ca features an 'Off-Season Game Plan' for each NHL team, breaking down each organization's strengths, weaknesses, needs and prospects by position.
Free Agent Frenzy is another component of TSN's off-season NHL coverage. Last week's coverage of the NHL Entry Draft attracted a national average audience of 442,000 viewers in prime time*, making it the second-most watched NHL Entry Draft ever on TSN.
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