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La Soirée du hockey most frequently featured Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings, usually in parallel with English-language broadcasts on CBC. In later years, CBC would drop some of its split-national telecasts in the 7 p.m. ET window, resulting in a single national telecast at that time (most of the time featuring the Toronto Maple ...
The Montreal Canadiens hockey game broadcasts formerly varied in name according to the day of the week. Saturday games were known as Le Hockey du Samedi Soir Coors Light. Tuesday games were known as Les Méchants Mardis Molson-Ex while all of the other day or night games were known as Le Hockey Subway des Canadiens.
The Montreal Canadiens [note 4] (French: Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially le Club de hockey Canadien (lit. The Canadian Hockey Club) [ 9 ] and colloquially known as the Habs , [ note 5 ] are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal .
In June 2008, RDS's parent, CTV Inc., acquired the rights to "The Hockey Theme" after the CBC decided not to renew its rights to the theme song.A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which has been the theme song of La Soirée du hockey and Hockey Night in Canada since 1968, will be used for hockey broadcasts on RDS and TSN beginning in the fall of 2008.
The CBC's French sister network, Ici Radio-Canada Télé (then known as Télévision de Radio-Canada), aired La Soirée du hockey with Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings. The network had also aired Quebec Nordiques and Ottawa Senators games occasionally during the regular season (if the Canadiens were not playing that night) and the ...
A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which has been the theme song of La Soirée du hockey and Hockey Night in Canada since 1968, has been used for hockey broadcasts on RDS and TSN beginning in the fall of 2008. [22] TSN has occasionally held regional English-language rights for the Canadiens. Its most recent deal ran from 2010 through 2014.
Pierre Houde (born 14 July 1957) is a Canadian play-by-play sports announcer for Réseau des sports (RDS). He has announced broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens games since 1989, and received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2024, in recognition from the Hockey Hall of Fame for his broadcasting career.
Les Canadiens was the original name of the Montreal Canadiens professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey Association (NHA), as used in the 1910 season.This was the founding season of the Canadiens hockey club, which now is a franchise member of the National Hockey League (NHL).