Canada gets an alternative to the Emmy's tonight!
Not sure if anyone else is interested at all, but the new (third) season of the CBC show Battle of the Blades starts TONIGHT!
Like I said, Battle of the Blades is a Canadian TV show that matches figure skaters with NHL hockey players. This season sees 7 teams of figure skaters and hockey players battling it out!
So... Who is competing this season? Well, there's a twist! The first time BOTB has had a female hockey player!
The hockey players:
Tessa Bonhomme: member of Canada's Olympic Gold-Medal winning hockey team in 2010, medal winner at the world championships
Bryan Berard: former NHL-er having played for 6 teams
Brad May: former NHL player with the Toronto, Vancouver and Anaheim. Won the Stanley Cup in 2008 with Anaheim
Boyd Devereaux: former NHL-er with 4 teams, one Stanley cup, and a World Junior Championships gold medal under his belt
Curtis Leschyshyn: Stanley Cup with the Colorado in 1996, and played with Quebec and Ottawa for the other parts of his career
Cale Hulse: former NHL player with Calgary, New Jersey, Nashville, Phoenix and Columbus
Todd Simpson: former defenseman playing for 7 teams though his carreer
The figure skaters (I only included discriptions for the skaters that I didn't know, I think most of the others are fairly well known, at least in Canada):
David Pelletier
Elena Berezhnaya
Tanith Belbin
Marie-France Dubreuil
Anabelle Langlois
Violetta Afanasieva: Russian Circus skater, won the first-ever Extreme Ice Skating World Championships
Kim Navarro: US World Team member and two-time US Ice Dance bronze medalist
Marcey Hinzmann-Harris: US World and Olympic team member, two-time US Pairs medalist
Source
You might notice that there's an uneven number of hockey players to figure skaters. Wade Belak was supposed to be competing as well, however, a few weeks ago he passed away in Toronto.
Not sure if mods will allow it or if any of you want it... would anyone be interested in a weekly BOTB post after the results show recapping the week? PS - Sorry about the shitty editing guys, I'm still getting used to the new RTE -.-'
Like I said, Battle of the Blades is a Canadian TV show that matches figure skaters with NHL hockey players. This season sees 7 teams of figure skaters and hockey players battling it out!
So... Who is competing this season? Well, there's a twist! The first time BOTB has had a female hockey player!
The hockey players:
Tessa Bonhomme: member of Canada's Olympic Gold-Medal winning hockey team in 2010, medal winner at the world championships
Bryan Berard: former NHL-er having played for 6 teams
Brad May: former NHL player with the Toronto, Vancouver and Anaheim. Won the Stanley Cup in 2008 with Anaheim
Boyd Devereaux: former NHL-er with 4 teams, one Stanley cup, and a World Junior Championships gold medal under his belt
Curtis Leschyshyn: Stanley Cup with the Colorado in 1996, and played with Quebec and Ottawa for the other parts of his career
Cale Hulse: former NHL player with Calgary, New Jersey, Nashville, Phoenix and Columbus
Todd Simpson: former defenseman playing for 7 teams though his carreer
The figure skaters (I only included discriptions for the skaters that I didn't know, I think most of the others are fairly well known, at least in Canada):
David Pelletier
Elena Berezhnaya
Tanith Belbin
Marie-France Dubreuil
Anabelle Langlois
Violetta Afanasieva: Russian Circus skater, won the first-ever Extreme Ice Skating World Championships
Kim Navarro: US World Team member and two-time US Ice Dance bronze medalist
Marcey Hinzmann-Harris: US World and Olympic team member, two-time US Pairs medalist
Source
You might notice that there's an uneven number of hockey players to figure skaters. Wade Belak was supposed to be competing as well, however, a few weeks ago he passed away in Toronto.
Not sure if mods will allow it or if any of you want it... would anyone be interested in a weekly BOTB post after the results show recapping the week? PS - Sorry about the shitty editing guys, I'm still getting used to the new RTE -.-'