Underplayed Gems

Power Play (1998)

Power Play poster
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 26 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A sports agent from New York becomes the general manager of a Canadian hockey team. He struggles with his passion for the sport, his complicated feelings for a corporate executive, and his relationships with the team and its owner.

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What happens

Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now TD 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 (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 United States broadcast network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after two episodes. The second episode aired in the United States 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 United States network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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