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Original language(s)
  
English

Final episode date
  
17 February 2000

Network
  
CTV Television Network

7.9/10
IMDb

Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
2

Genre
  
Drama

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Created by
  
Glenn Davis William Laurin

Starring
  
Michael Riley Kari Matchett Dean McDermott Caterina Scorsone Gordon Pinsent

Opening theme
  
"The Hockey Song" Performed by Stompin' Tom Connors

Cast
  
Kari Matchett, Caterina Scorsone, Gordon Pinsent, Michael Riley, Dean McDermott

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Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre) in Hamilton, Ontario.

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The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a (fictional) National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads.

One of the throughline plots of the series dealt with Parker's ongoing love–hate relationships with the sport, the team and his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed, played by Kari Matchett.

The cast also included Gordon Pinsent as team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin' Tom Connors classic, "The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty.

The show was briefly aired on the US network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after just two episodes. The second episode aired in the US has the distinction of being the lowest-rated episode (since the Nielsen ratings service began in the 1950s) of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any US network.

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Starring cast

  • Michael Riley – Brett Parker
  • Kari Matchett – Colleen Blessed
  • Dean McDermott – Mark Simpson
  • Caterina Scorsone – Michelle Parker
  • Gordon Pinsent – Duff McArdle

    • Recurring cast

  • Jonathan Rannells – Todd Maplethorpe
  • Mark Lutz – Jukka Branny-Acke
  • Krista Bridges – Rose Thorton
  • Normand Bissonnette – Al Tremblay
  • Lori Anne Alter – Renata D'Allesandro
  • Greg Spottiswood – Joe Harriman
  • Al Waxman – Lloyd Gorman
  • Johanna Black – Andrea Stuyvesant
  • Neil Crone – Harry Strand
  • Jonathan Crombie – Hudson James
  • Fiona Highet – Rayanne Simpson
  • David Keeley – Bud Travis
  • Jennifer Dale – Samantha Robbins
  • Don Cherry – Jake Nelson
  • Tanja Jacobs – SM3 Reagan Sexsmith
  • Chris Tessaro – Marshak
  • Rob Faulds – Play-by-Play Announcer
  • Sean McCann – Ray Malone

    • All-time Hamilton Steelheads roster

    The following players have been seen playing for the Steelheads over the course of the series:

  • 1 Tremblay
  • 1 McCloud
  • 2 Banks
  • 3 Kudlow
  • 4 Borden
  • 7 Schmöckel
  • 9 Simpson
  • 10 Wynn
  • 12 Sauvé
  • 13 Bränny-Acke
  • 14 Marshak
  • 16 Lalonde
  • 18 Grant
  • 22 Maplethorpe
  • 23 Dee
  • 24 Stephanovic
  • 25 St. Germaine
  • 26 Pacelli
  • 28 Chartraw
  • 29 Alexander: D. Parent
  • 30 MacDougall
  • 32 Shipton
  • 37 Ignarson
  • 40 Zinoviev
  • 44 Bedard
  • 48 McNally
  • 55 Gunn
  • 75 Kerensky
  • 75 Robinson

    • Season one

    1. "Perambulate Me Back to My Habitual Abode" (Sept 21 1998)
    2. "Changing the Luck" (Sept 28 1998)
    3. "All for One"
    4. "Seventh Game"
    5. "Off Season"
    6. "Brothers in Arms"
    7. "The Bad Boy"
    8. "Purple Hazing"
    9. "Family Values"
    10. "Pucks the Size of Beach Balls"
    11. "High Noon"
    12. "Dire Straits"
    13. "Waked at the Forum"

    Season two

    1. "Everything is Broken"
    2. "Resign or Re-Sign"
    3. "Manipulation"
    4. "Evasion"
    5. "Temptation"
    6. "The Truth"
    7. "The Jumper"
    8. "The Mask"
    9. "Foolish Hearts"
    10. "The Quarter Finals"
    11. "The Cubicle"
    12. "The Finals"
    13. "What It All Meant"

    References

    Power Play (TV series) Wikipedia
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