Alex Newhook fans turn N.L. bars into ‘mini Bell Centres’ during Habs playoff games

The CBC’s ninety-year run of broadcasting hockey in Canada, first on the radio in 1936 and on television in 1952, is over. Rogers Sportsnet is now the sole rights holder after it and the CBC failed to reach a sublicensing deal that would have kept the national broadcaster in the business of broadcasting the country’s national winter sport. Anger, frustration, disappointment, grief, and shock over the end of CBC hockey broadcasts reflect a sense of loss, that something has been taken away from us, that we’ve sold out a public institution to a for-profit company. For some, the concern...