Danielle Goyette (CP)

Danielle Goyette Named Canada’s Flag Bearer For The 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

CALGARY/MONTREAL, January 26, 2006 – The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) announced today that women’s ice hockey player and two-time (1998, 2002) Olympic medallist Danielle Goyette (St-Nazaire, Que.) has been named Canada’s flag bearer for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy.

Canada’s 2006 Olympic Team announcement was held simultaneously at Olympic Park in Montreal and at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. "I am extremely honoured to have been selected as the flag bearer representing hockey, minor hockey players across the country, and all the Canadian athletes at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin,” said Goyette.  “I am humbled to have been chosen and feel it is a tribute to our entire team.  My teammates and I are all looking forward to making Canada proud in Turin.”

An Olympic gold medallist in 2002 and a silver medallist at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, Goyette, 39, has been a member of the Canadian National Women’s Team since the 1991-92 season. The second highest scoring player in the history of the Canadian National Women’s Team, Goyette is set to mark her milestone 40th birthday on January 30 – the same day the squad arrives in Turin to begin final preparations for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

Throughout her outstanding career, Goyette has represented Canada at more World Championships than any other male or female player in the history of Canadian hockey.  Over that time, she has won 21 international medals, including 17 gold. Apart from her success on the ice, Goyette has also received national praise for her unwavering charitable commitments.

A quintessential role model throughout her career, Goyette has spent numerous hours working with less privileged groups throughout Canada.  Among her charitable endeavours, Goyette has painted the Calgary Safe Haven for troubled teens, cooked and served meals at the Ronald McDonald House in Calgary, helped build playgrounds for kids and served dinner to less fortunate families.

Goyette will be leading Canada’s team into the Olympic Stadium in Turin for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony on February 10.  Competing in all disciplines for the first time since 1988, Canada’s 2006 Olympic team is expected to include an estimated 200 athletes.  The complete team list will be finalized on February 6.

A total of six athletes and six teams will also be returning to defend their medals from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, including gold medallists Beckie Scott (cross-country skiing, Vermilion, Alta., five-kilometre Pursuit), the men’s 5,000-metre short track speed skating team and the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams; silver medallists Jonathan Guilmette (short track speed skating, 500 metres, Montreal, Que.) and the men’s curling team; and bronze medallists Deidra Dionne (freestyle skiing, aerials, Red Deer, Alta.), Clara Hughes (long track speed skating, 5,000 metres, Winnipeg, Man.), Cindy Klassen (long track speed skating, 3,000 metres, Winnipeg, Man.), Mathieu Turcotte (short track speed skating, 1,000 metres, Sherbrooke, Que.), the women’s curling team and the women’s 3,000-metre short track speed skating squad.

Canadian team members Thomas Grandi (alpine skiing, Canmore, Alta.), 1998 Olympic gold medallist Pierre Lueders (bobsleigh, Edmonton, Alta.) and Olympic medallists Clara Hughes (long track speed skating and cycling, Winnipeg, Man.) and Hayley Wickenheiser (ice hockey and softball, Shaunavon, Sask.) will compete in their fourth Olympic Games.

The complete list of Canada’s 2006 Olympic team, as well as all background documents distributed at today’s press conferences, is available at www.olympic.ca

Mellisa Hollingsworth (CP)

CANADA'S MELLISA HOLLINGSWORTH-RICHARDS CROWNED WORLD CUP SKELETON QUEEN.
(CODA Release)

Altenberg, GER-Canada's Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards finished the World Cup season exactly the way she started it - on the podium - with the speedy skeleton racer earning a bronze medal and the World Cup women's crown during the seventh and final race of the 2005-06 campaign in Altenberg, Germany on Thursday.

The victory brings the 25-year-old Eckville, Alta. native's medal tally to seven in seven races, including two gold, leaving her with 630 points for performances that redefined the meaning of a breakout season. "This feels awesome," said the ecstatic slider, who kicked off the season last November with her first career gold medal win on her home track in Calgary, and never looked back from there. "I was actually so relieved after the first run today, because it went great. After the second run I knew I had probably clinched it, but you never know until you look up at the clock."

"I had high expectations going into this season, but I never expected anything quite like this," said Hollingsworth-Richards of her overall title and avalanche of medals. "After every race I've felt happy, but not quite content, with my performance. I'm always thinking of things I can improve on."

Despite what she termed "a terrible week of training," Hollingsworth-Richards, as she's ably demonstrated all season, indeed slid up to the plate when it counted. With the mind-boggling success of her World Cup season now behind her, she now slides into her Olympic debut next month in Torino, Italy as a heavy medal favourite - if one who feels she's still pursuing the world's other top competitors, including teammate Lindsay Alcock, who finished seventh overall in the individual points rankings.

"I feel this World Cup season was a chapter and now I can put closure on it to begin a new start," said Hollingsworth-Richards, who has a throng of 14 family members traveling to Torino to cheer her on, including her husband, rodeo saddle bronc rider Billy Richards.

Canada can now lay claim to being the skeleton capital of the world. One day after teammate Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards won the overall World Cup title in women's competition, Jeff Pain repeated the feat on Friday by winning his second gold medal in as many races on the way to his second consecutive World Cup men's crown. 

"It feels pretty good to do it twice in a row," said the 35-year-old, who went into this season as the defending World Cup titleholder and world champion from the 2004-05 campaign. "It was a really good race for me on a track that's kicked my butt in the past, so it felt great to have two good runs." Friday's gold medal triumph was the fourth medal, and third gold, of the year for Pain.

Pain's second World Cup title in as many seasons leaves Canada atop the heap in international rankings with 503 points in men's competition, 15 more than the second-place United States. In individual rankings, Canucks Paul Boehm and Duff Gibson, both of who will join Pain next month in Torino, Italy for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, finished sixth and 14th with 344 and 223 points, respectively.

Gen Simard (CP)

Simard finds a silver lining; After DQ, skis to first podium of World Cup season.
(The Toronto Star)

Just when things seemed like they couldn't get much worse for Genevieve Simard, they got a lot better. The 25-year-old skier from Val Morin, Que., swept down the giant slalom course in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, yesterday to place second, her first World Cup podium of the season. Teammate Allison Forysth was fourth, just three-hundredths of a second off a medal.

The timing was good for a Canadian women's team that was beginning to look as if it would not be among the contenders at the Feb. 10-26 Turin Olympics. "A lot of things hadn't been happening for Allison and myself lately," said Simard, who missed a gate in a super-G race a day earlier and was disqualified. "Today they did."

Simard said she didn't need the medal to believe she could reach the podium at the Olympics, but she'll definitely take it. "That was never a doubt in my mind, that I could challenge for a podium (in Turin)," she said. "I know that's a pretty bold statement, but I believe in that and I think you have to be confident to be able to challenge the best. I'm just happy I finally put two runs together today, full gas, full attack, maximum risk and it worked out."

While Simard says she felt no pressure, Forsyth seemed to be breathing a big sigh of relief. "What happens after a day like today is everyone's just in great spirits and hanging out together and having some beers after the race and life just seems okay," said the 27-year-old from Nanaimo, B.C. "I think that's the biggest thing. The panic is off. The pressure is off."

"It was an interesting day emotionally," said Simard. "The first run I was calm and very confident. The second run I was obviously more nervous and tighter. Allison's performance gave me a great boost. I just focused on skiing smart and it worked."

In a men's super-G race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Francois Bourque of New Richmond, Que., finished 11th despite being only two-tenths of a second off the podium. Austrian Christoph Gruber won. Erik Guay of Mont Tremblant, Que., the team's top hope at the Olympics, missed racing for the second straight day because of a calf injury.

Pierre Lueders and Lascelles Brown (CP)

CANADA'S PIERRE LUEDERS CONCLUDES WORLD CUP SEASON ATOP THE HEAP IN OVERALL COMBINED POINTS.

Altenberg, GER-Canadian bobsleigh pilot Pierre Lueders finished up on Sunday what has at times been a trying season and he did so in way that's been the hallmark of his distinguished athletic career - on top of the pack. "We're just happy to make it out of here in one piece," chuckled the 35-year-old Edmonton native, who concludes the 2005-06 campaign atop the heap in overall combined points with 995. "We all need a bit of a break here. There's been a lot of highs and lows this season."

On Sunday, Lueders and his four-man crew of Ken Kotyk, of Rama, Sask., and Morgan Alexander and Lascelles Brown, both from Calgary, steered the Canada 1 sled to a fifth-place in the final four-man race of the season in Altenberg, Germany. Although the result fell shy of a medal finish, Lueders was pleased with how his four-man squad has gelled into a formidable unit going into the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy next month.

"Despite the result, I felt good about my driving on certain corners that have always given me problems and those were things I was able to fix this week," said Lueders. "We had good preparation going into the race; but it can be difficult, at the end of the year when there's a big event like the Olympics or the world championships coming up, to not start looking beyond. I was maybe a little guilty of that today."

However, in looking ahead to the Olympics, Lueders can't help but be pleased with a season that saw him clinch the World Cup title in the two-man event on the strength of 510 points earned and a bronze medal performance on Saturday.

Sherraine Mackay(CP)

MacKay wins Prague World Cup gold!

PRAGUE – Sherraine MacKay of Brooks, Alta., won the gold medal defeating Xiaojuan Luo of China 15-11 in the final of the Prague d’Or Epee World Cup Sunday."I can't tell you how honouring it was to hear the Canadian national anthem being played as I watched the rise of our great maple leaf flag!" MacKay said with a wink and a smile. "You know, I was practising singing the words between matches in the semi-finals."

Currently ranked second in the world, MacKay’s seventh career world cup gold medal came one week after kicking of the 2006 season with a silver medal in Budapest.“After winning silver last week, my coach asked me if I actually wanted to win a world cup. I guess that was the perspective I needed to get me to the next level. Here’s proof that I DID indeed want to win gold!”

MacKay’s first round match was a nail-biter as at the end of regulation time she and Katalin Izso from Hungary were tied 6-6.  Her opponent was award priority. (This means that at the end of the one minute overtime period, if no one scores a point, the person with priority would automatically be declared the winner.) With a mere four seconds remaining, MacKay lured Izso in and launched an attack scoring to win 7-6.    “I wasn’t what you would call perfect today but I did what is takes to win.”

Other Canadian results came from Montreal’s Julie Leprohon from Calgary who finished 35th while Toronto’s Ainsley Switzer placed 47th after her first round heartbreak loss 12-11 to Anna Kohv from Estonia. Catherine Dunnette from Calgary was 71st while Ontario’s Leigh Voigt finished 85th. There were 139 competitors in the event.

Alex Despatie and Blythe Hartley (CP)

Alexandre Despatie and Blythe Hartley secure spots for Commonwealth Games.

WINNIPEG-Alexandre Despatie of Montreal’s CAMO Club made an impressive return to the 10-metre tower event on Sunday at the Winter Nationals and Commonwealth Games trials diving competition including two perfect 10 scores in a gold medal performance.

Diving Canada also nominated a 12-member team to Commonwealth Games Canada for the Commonwealth Games March 15-26 in Melbourne, Australia.

Despatie won his fourth gold medal of the competition and 33rd career national title. Eric Sehn of Edmonton was second and Wegadesk Gorup-Paul of Victoria third. ‘’I couldn’t be happier with how I did,’’ said Despatie, 20, the reigning world champion on one and three-metre.  ‘’In the preliminaries I was really concentrating.  I didn’t want to make any mistakes and get off on a positive note.  That carried pretty much to the final.’’

In the six-round final, Despatie dazzled the crowd earning at least 9.0’s on five dives including one 10 on his armstand dive in the third round and another perfect score on his back two and half in the final round. Despatie hadn’t competed on tower in almost a year due to injuries. ‘’Getting two perfect scores in the final is a bonus,’’ he said.  ‘’It’s not something I expected.  There’s still some tweaking to do for the Games but I like my dive list right now and I want to do it as close to perfection as possible.’’

The women’s three-metre springboard was the closest individual competition this week.  Blythe Hartley of North Vancouver took the gold, her third victory this week and her 23rd career Canadian crown.  Émilie Heymans of Pointe-Claire, Que., was second and Mélanie Rinaldi of Pointe-Claire third. ‘’I think overall it was a pretty solid day, but it’s rare I do better in the preliminaries than in the final,’’ said Hartley, also the one-metre and synchronized three-metre champion with Heymans this week.  ‘’I was a little shocked about that.’’

The Commonwealth Games team is now set.  For the men, it is Despatie, Arturo Miranda of Pointe-Claire and Kevin Geyson of Winnipeg on three-metre; Despatie/Miranda and Geyson/Cam McLean of Winnipeg on synchronized three-metre; Despatie and Gorup-Paul  on tower and Gorup-Paul and Riley McCormick of Victoria on synchronized 10-metre.

For the women it is: Hartley, Heymans and Rinaldi on three-metre; Hartley and Heymans on synchronized three-metre; Heymans, 12-year-old Rachel Kemp of Victoria and Roseline Filion of Montreal on tower and Filion and Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal on synchronized 10-metre.

The competition was also a team selection for this year’s FINA Grand Prix events.

Jenn Heil (CP)

Bellissimo! Heil wins gold - Olympic Team Set.

MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, Italy – Mogullist Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alta., continued to sharpen her game leading up to the Olympic Games by winning a Freestyle FIS World Cup in convincing fashion Saturday.

Her sixth podium performance in seven World Cup starts had Heil, 22, proud, pleased, but not presumptuous about the upcoming Games. “This week was just a fantastic week,” said Heil, who trains out of Montreal. “The big thing is I’ve never been able to ski so quick and with such turns. Finally, I was where I wanted them… I had the best turns of my life both in semis and in the finals, and just skied very light.”

Heil, who clinched her Olympic berth last season, heads into her second Olympics knowing she’s among medal contenders on the Canadian freestyle team. “It’s exciting,” said Heil. “We have a very strong team, a very competitive team, and there’s a great attitude and great energy.”

Two of Heil’s teammates – Chris Wong of Prince George, B.C., and Audrey Robichaud of Val Bélair, Que. – also produced clutch performances Saturday to clinch the last two berths on the freestyle team’s Olympic squad.

Pumping both fists in the air and screaming, he then played the waiting game, of watching the other finalists, before knowing he’d clinched an Olympic berth. “It’s by far the best thing I’ve done in my life,” said Wong, 24, who was bumped off the World Cup squad last year, and had to re-earn his berth on the NorAm circuit. “I couldn’t be more proud of an athlete,” said Canadian moguls team coach Bob Aldighieri. “It may sound contrived and corny, but he really took destiny in his own hands.”

Robichaud of Val Bélair, Que., also clinched an Olympic berth despite placing 20th. She had been in a battle with Sylvia Kerfoot for the last Olympic berth on the Canadian women’s moguls squad, but Kerfoot would only have displaced Robichaud with a win in Saturday’s final. Kerfoot still had one of her season’s top showings in placing 10th.

Kristi Richards of Summerland, B.C., who’s headed to the Olympics, was 13th in women’s moguls. Other Canadian finalists Saturday were Alex Bilodeau of Rosemère, Que., and Marc-André Moreau of Chambly, Que. The Olympic-bound athletes finished sixth and seventh respectively.

Canadian Freestyle Olympic Team:
The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association is delighted to announce our final nominations for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. With the completion of the final qualification event today in Madonna di Campiglio, all the hard work and dedication has paid off for these fourteen athletes, however we would also like to take the opportunity to recognize all the members of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team – the competition to make the Olympic team was intense and very closely fought, we are proud of all of you

Alanna Kraus (CP)

KRAUS SKATES QUIETER GAMES.
(The Calgary Sun)

It's been a relatively quiet season for Alanna Kraus but, leading up to the Olympics, the silence is no big deal.

The Winter Games are where athletes want to make noise and the short track speed skater from Abbotsford, B.C., would like nothing more than to hear O Canada in Turin, Italy, as she stands on the podium.

As part of the Canadian women's 3,000m relay team, Kraus should be able to pick up a medal but it'll be interesting to watch her in the 500m, an event where she's picked it up a notch. This season she shattered the previous Canadian record (44.184 seconds), setting a new mark of 43.83, beating her personal best by .5 seconds in the process and she's thrilled with the accomplishment. "Just to break that 44 number is huge and I did it in a semifinal, then didn't make the final but it was so awesome to break that number," said Kraus, who trains at the Olympic Oval in Calgary.

Not many short trackers have gone under 44 seconds. Just four have done it, including Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova, who set the world record of 43.671 in 2001 at the Oval. If Kraus can set a personal best in Turin, there's a good chance she'll pick up a medal it the 500, especially if she does it in the final. Short track is an inherently crazy sport where high-speed crashes occur with regularity and skaters are disqualified for interference. Kraus can't control the outside influences, so she won't even try. "I don't pay much attention to the refs and I'm sure something's going to happen along the way, I just hope it's not in my race," she said with a laugh.

Something weird always happens in short track, such as the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City where Australian Steven Bradbury won gold after a last-lap pileup worked to his advantage. Something that might work in Kraus' favour is the fact all the short track events are at night. "I'm a night owl, so it's perfect for me," she said.

With one Olympics under her belt, Kraus will be a veteran heading into Turin, which starts Feb. 10. She'll have a lighter workload than she did in Salt Lake, where she competed in all four events and helped the relay team claim bronze. "I won't be in as many distances. This time I'm just going to absorb the scene a little more," said Kraus.

Calgary High Performance Community Applauds City’s Adoption of Civic Sport Policy.
(Canadian Sport Centre Calgary)

As the Canadian Olympic Committee prepares to announce the Olympic Team for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, Calgary is once again at the forefront of the amateur winter sport scene. An estimated two thirds of the Canadian contingent that will compete next month in Torino live and train in and around the Calgary area. This city’s uniqueness in its depth of involvement in winter Olympic sport is a direct result of the 1988 Olympic Legacy and is second to none in the country.
 
The impact of having Olympic athletes living and training in our city is evident not only through the enrichment they bring to Calgary’s diverse culture, but also through the provision of strong mentors. Dale Henwood, President of the Canadian Sport Centre Calgary speaks to the connection to future generations of athletes; “elite athletes act as inspiring role models to our youth, promoting the pursuit of excellence and healthy active lifestyles”.
 
This past November, The City of Calgary adopted the Calgary Civic Sport Policy, a foundational document developed by the local sport community that cements the importance of sport into City operations, ensuring greater support and direction for sport from the grassroots level all the way up to Canada’s Olympic athletes. It is pioneering in its link to the Canadian Sport Policy and it is of critical importance towards ensuring that Calgary continues to be the premiere winter sport city in Canada. “I believe that the adoption of the sport policy provides the City with a framework to think big about Calgary’s future in sport, from grassroots participation to Canada’s Olympians that live and train here,” says Russell Reimer, Chair of the Calgary Sport Policy Steering Committee.
 
“With the new policy, the Calgary Sport Council will take on a leadership role by representing the interest, goals and objectives of amateur sports to City Council and will begin to set a clear direction for sport in our city” says Tim Bjornson, president of the Calgary Sport Council.
 
Henwood agrees that this direction is becoming increasingly important as we near 2010 and the Olympic Games that Canada will host on home soil. “With the wave of euphoria brought about by Vancouver / Whistler’s winning bid to host the Olympics, Canada is in a position to capitalize on that enthusiasm and create a sport system to not only ensure a top performance at those Games, but to sustain amateur athletic performance well into the future, and Calgary is an essential element in that effort”.
 
As an Olympic training centre, Calgary is host to internationally renowned coaches, facilities, sport medical services, and technical expertise, which are increasingly utilized by athletes and countries throughout the world. This leadership will continue to be developed as the games in Torino come to an end and the focus turns to Vancouver in 2010.

Olympic Bobsleigh and Skeleton Track in Italy (CP)

Bobsleigh track paved with gold and anxiety.
(The Daily News - Nanaimo)

How an athlete prepares for the Olympics is a complicated, tried and tested procedure. It is a common saying in elite sports that on race day, 80% of the result is between the ears. In other words, the brain is a powerful tool. Many of our daily habits are shown by our actions, and in the case of an Olympic athlete, displayed to millions of people around the world.

In the sport of skeleton and bobsleigh, when we arrive for a World Cup race, there is a large amount of preparation work -- some physical and a large portion mental -- which must be complete before an athlete even attempts the first run down the track. Since we move to a new track in a different country every week, the track rules vary and each athlete and team must follow defined guidelines and track times.

The athletes and coaches are allowed to walk on the ice in the bobsleigh track during specified times and each athlete carries a notebook to be filled with comments from the coach on the specific lines for entry and exit from each portion of track to gain optimal speed.

Each profession has its experts and its own terminology, and in the sport of skeleton they know ICE. They know how ice should sound, how ice should feel and how ice should look. They say words like 'crunchy, slick, rounded, chippy, moist and dry'. These words don't sound complicated but bring an instant recognition. The terminology can divulge: the moisture content of the ice; or whether the sled should be driven closer to the walls.

Each corner has its own number or name, and is examined for smoothness, G-force, enter and exit speed, and, of course, the fastest way to the bottom. Some corners are wide and sweeping, some tight and very sharp on the entry or exit which will throw the sled into the opposite wall if the athlete doesn't drive the sled into a certain line. Before the first run, the athlete has gone down the run perhaps 50 times in their head, visualizing perfect execution.

This is the most important tool the competitor can access, as they only have six runs on each track before racing. Those with the best mental abilities are generally the healthiest and on top of the result sheet.

Are the athletes scared before their first run down a new or difficult track? When I ask World Cup winners (and Canada has seven of them), I am always amazed at the respect they continually have for each track. They all have trepidation just entering the start box. All spend hours rehearsing, visualizing and watching the other sliders.

The common thread is that these athletes have to be prepared before hurdling head-first with speeds up to 133 km/h on this track here in St. Moritz, the only natural snow and ice track in the world.

When you watch the skeleton races from Turin on TV, you will see the athletes doing sort of a dance with their bodies just before the start. This is an exact representation of how they will steer the sled during the run. When you watch the actual run, it's not easy to see how they control the sled, as the movements are subtle. As with any expert in the field of play, it will look effortless and almost graceful.

- Yvonne Visser is a Nanaimo massage therapist and former Olympian who is part of the health care team with the Canadian Olympic Committee tending to athletes in Alpine, snowboarding, skeleton, bobsleigh, and luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She is currently on tour with the Canadian skeleton Team in Latvia. Her column will appear every week in the month of January.

Olympic coverage best ever: Catch action from Turin on TV, computer and cellphone.
(Times Colonist - Victoria)
Source: The Canadian Press

The 2006 Winter Olympics Games will come to you from Turin, Italy, on television, radio and the internet. You can even catch the luge highlights on your cellphone or watch a replay of that Nordic combined event you were dying to see with video-on-demand. There also will be a couple of hockey games shown.

Between the parade of athletes at the opening ceremonies on Feb. 10 to the Games flame being extinguished Feb. 26, CBC will provide around 1,000 hours of Olympic coverage.

Canadians can tune in on the main CBC network, Newsworld, TSN, RDS, Radio-Canada, the digital cable network Country Canada, listen on the radio or log on at the cbc.ca website. For the first time some hockey, speed skating, figure skating and short-track speed skating will be shown in high definition.

The end of the Turin Olympics will begin the countdown to Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Games. A consortium involving Bell Globemedia, CTV and Rogers will have the broadcast rights for 2010 and the 2012 Summer Games in London.

While highlighting Canadian athletes in Turin, CBC will also provide the top international stories, executive producer Terry Ludwick said during a conference call Thursday. "Canadians will measure our success as a broadcaster by how well we deliver them the story of these Games and we're going to deliver," he said.

Canadian athletes are hoping to win a record number of medals in sports like skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, curling, bobsled and luge. But for many viewers the two hockey finals will be the highlight of the Games, especially if the Canadian men play for gold again.

Terry Leibel, who will host the Games morning program, isn't worried men's hockey will overshadow all the other sports. "Hockey for sure is an incredible attraction for Canadians, but I also think our audience has an appreciation for sports they wouldn't otherwise watch," she said. Jim Hughson and Bob Cole will do the play-by-play of the men's hockey with Don Cherry, Harry Neale, Greg Millen and Kelly Hrudey offering analysis.