TORONTO (March 11, 2004) – Top-notch coverage of Canada’s favourite
pastime
continues on TSN – home to everything hockey – with seven exciting
Hockey
Canada events this upcoming season.

TSN’s schedule for the upcoming Hockey Canada season features:


* Esso Women’s National Hockey Championship – March 14,
2004

* IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship – April 3 to 6,
2004

* National Midget Hockey Championship – April 25, 2004

* IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship – April 25 to May
9,
2004

* RBC Royal Bank Cup – May 16, 2004

* IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship – December 25,
2004 to
January 4, 2005

* World Under-17 Hockey Challenge – January 2005
(See below for complete broadcast schedule)

TSN has coverage of the Gold Medal Game from the Esso Women’s National
Hockey Championship in Sherwood Park, Alta. The tournament features
members
of Canada’s National Women’s Team and Canada’s Under-22 National Team,
as
well as players who have participated in the Canada Winter Games and the
National Women’s Under-18 Challenge. This year’s tournament features 10
teams from nine provinces competing for the coveted National
Championship
title.

At the IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship from Halifax/Dartmouth,
N.S.,
TSN will televise two games involving Team Canada plus the Gold Medal
Game.
Canada’s women’s hockey team has participated in every World
Championship in
tournament history, winning all seven tournaments without ever recording
a
loss.

TSN celebrates the 30th anniversary of the National Midget Hockey
Championship from Kenora, Ont., with coverage of the Gold Medal Game.
Formerly known as the Air Canada Cup, the annual event showcases many
future
NHL players and is the only officially recognized national minor hockey
championship in Canada. Current and former NHL stars that have taken
part
in the tournament include Mike Peca (1990), Joe Sakic (1986), Wendel
Clark
(1982), Steve Yzerman (1980) and Al MacInnis (1979).

TSN travels to Prague, Czech Republic to provide complete Team Canada
coverage of the IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship. Teams are
comprised
of NHL players not involved in the NHL playoffs. Last year, Canada took
home the gold medal with a 3-2 overtime win against Sweden.

This year’s RBC Royal Bank Cup from Grande Prairie, Alta., marks the
first
Junior ‘A’ championship to be played without a red line to negate
two-line
passes. TSN has coverage of the Gold Medal Game from the annual
tournament.

The IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship returns to North American soil
as
the 2005 event will be held in North Dakota. TSN has complete Team
Canada
coverage, plus action from the quarter-finals, semifinals and Gold Medal
Game. TSN’s coverage of the Gold Medal Game from the 2003 World Juniors
in
Halifax attracted the largest audience in network history with 3.5
million
viewers.

The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge rounds out TSN’s Hockey Canada
coverage
for the upcoming season as the world’s best young players face off to
decide
international hockey supremacy.

TSN’s upcoming Hockey Canada broadcast schedule is as follows:
Esso Women’s National Hockey Championship
* Gold Medal Game Sunday, March 14 at 9:30 p.m. ET

IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship
* Canada vs. TBA Saturday, April 3 at 3 p.m. ET

* Canada vs. TBA Sunday, April 4 at 7 p.m. ET

* Gold Medal Game Tuesday, April 6 at 7 p.m. ET

National Midget Hockey Championship

* Gold Medal Game Sunday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. ET

IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship

* Canada vs. Austria Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. ET

* Canada vs. France Tuesday, April 27 at 6 a.m. ET

* Canada vs. Switzerland Wednesday, April 28 at 10 a.m.
ET

* Canada vs. TBA Friday, April 30 at 10 a.m. ET

* Canada vs. TBA Sunday, May 2 at 2 p.m. ET

* Canada vs. TBA Monday, May 3 at 2 p.m. ET

* Quarter-final Wednesday, May 5 at 10 a.m. ET

* Semifinal Saturday, May 8 at 2 p.m. ET

* Gold Medal Game Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m. ET

RBC Royal Bank Cup
* Gold Medal Game Saturday, May 16 at 3 p.m. ET

IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship – December 25, 2004 to January 4,
2005


* Complete Team Canada Coverage

* Quarter-finals

* Semifinals

* Gold Medal Game

World Under-17 Hockey Challenge – January 2005


* Gold Medal Game

Schedule subject to change

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