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Power Play(1998)

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First Air Date: 1998-10-15

Average Runtime: 1h 0m

Rating: 10.0

Votes: 2

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Power Play was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a 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 of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any US network.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 13

Perambulate Me Back to My Habitual Abode

Air Date: 1998-10-15

Brett Parker returns to his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, and is offered the job of general manager to the Hamilton ...

Changing the Luck

Air Date: 1998-10-22

The Steelheads make it into the series, but when Brett breaks the team's lucky bottle, their luck goes from bad to wo...

All for One

Air Date: 1998-10-29

Mark continues to hide how serious his condition is from the other players, insisting he is able to play. Michelle is...

Seventh Game

Air Date: 1998-11-12

Brett reluctantly rehires Lloyd Gorman, whom he had previously fired for working drunk. Mark is furious when he ends ...

Off Season

Air Date: 1998-11-19

Brett's fiancÃ©e Andrea comes up from New York, but when Brett heads off to the guys' cabin retreat to talk to Shakey...

Brothers in Arms

Air Date: 1998-11-26

Todd is initially thrilled when his brother Jeff also joins the Steelheads until the competitive nature between the t...

The Bad Boy

Air Date: 1998-12-03

Brett pursues hockey bad boy Bobby Gunn in an attempt to get the Steelheads on the map, and is willing to ignore his ...

Purple Hazing

Air Date: 1999-01-06

After an up and coming rookie hurts his hand in a hazing ritual, the team is desperate to cover up what happened. Unf...

Family Values

Air Date: 1999-01-13

When a family-values orange juice dealer is interested in one of the Steelheads as a spokesperson, the fact that the ...

Pucks the Size of Beach Balls

Air Date: 1999-01-20

Colleen and Brett are at odds when Brett wants to sell tickets to the luxury boxes but Colleen is desperate to keep p...

High Noon

Air Date: 1999-02-03

Brett uses his connections to have the suspension listed against American player Frank Dusky, a well known goon, so t...

Dire Straits

Air Date: 1999-02-10

Todd can't help but second guess himself as Frank Duskey remains in a coma. Colleen and Brett go over the books and r...

Waked at the Forum

Air Date: 1999-02-17

Colleen forces Brett to resign after she finds out what he's been up to, leaving Harry Strand as general manager of t...

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