Want to relive those exciting and inspirational Canadian men’s hockey games from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics? The group behind those broadcasts have packaged all of the men’s games onto standard disc and Blu-ray DVDs, so you can watch them anytime you want.
But Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium gets two minutes in the penalty box for only including one game from the ladies’ team in the package.
Available at HMV stores, and online at CTV and RDS, Hockey Gold 2010 offers more than 18 hours of Olympic hockey footage from the games, including the men’s gold-medal match when Sidney Crosby scored the thrilling overtime winner against the United States. The live show back on Feb. 28 became the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history, with 16.7 million viewers.
The five-disc box set contains all seven Team Canada hockey games, including the women’s gold-medal winner against the U.S. Curiously, that’s the only game from the girls that got into the package.
“Canadians throughout the country jumped to their feet in jubilation when the overtime winner was scored. It was a defining moment for this country,” Adam Ashton, president, Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, said in a press release. “When you combine this with the women’s gold medal hockey triumph, Canadians could not have scripted a better ending to Vancouver 2010.”
Narrated in English by main CTV Olympic on-air host Brian Williams while the French version is done by RDS’ Claude Mailhot, the standard disc set is priced at $99.99 with the Blu-ray version at $129.99.
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