# Power Play (1998 TV series)

Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre) 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.

## Cast
### Main

* Michael Riley – Brett Parker
* Kari Matchett – Colleen Blessed
* Dean McDermott – Mark Simpson
* Caterina Scorsone – Michelle Parker
* Gordon Pinsent – Duff McArdle

### Recurring

* Jonathan Rannells – Todd Maplethorpe
* Mark Lutz – Jukka Branny-Acke
* Krista Bridges – Rose Thorton
* Normand Bissonnette – Al Tremblay
* Lori Anne Alter – Renata D'Allesandro
* Greg Spottiswood – Joe Harriman
* Al Waxman – Lloyd Gorman
* Johanna Black – Andrea Stuyvesant
* Neil Crone – Harry Strand
* Jonathan Crombie – Hudson James
* Fiona Highet – Rayanne Simpson
* David Keeley – Bud Travis
* Jennifer Dale – Samantha Robbins
* Don Cherry – Jake Nelson
* Tanja Jacobs – SM3 Reagan Sexsmith
* Chris Tessaro – Marshak
* Rob Faulds – Play-by-Play Announcer
* Sean McCann – Ray Malone

## All-time Hamilton Steelheads roster

The following players have been seen playing for the Steelheads over the course of the series:
* 1 Tremblay
* 1 McCloud
* 2 Banks
* 3 Kudlow
* 4 Borden
* 7 Schmöckel
* 9 Simpson
* 10 Wynn
* 12 Sauvé
* 13 Bränny-Acke
* 14 Marshak
* 16 Lalonde
* 18 Grant
* 22 Maplethorpe
* 23 Dee
* 24 Stephanovic
* 25 St. Germaine
* 26 Pacelli
* 28 Chartraw
* 29 Alexander: D. Parent
* 30 MacDougall
* 32 Shipton
* 37 Ignarson
* 40 Zinoviev
* 44 Bedard
* 48 McNally
* 55 Gunn
* 75 Kerensky
* 75 Robinson

## Episodes
### Season 1 (1998–99)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
| 1 | 1 | "Perambulate Me Back to My Habitual Abode" | John Fawcett | Glenn Davis & William Laurin | October 15, 1998 (1998-10-15) (Canada) June 14, 1999 (1999-06-14) (UPN) |
| 2 | 2 | "Changing the Luck" | Unknown | Unknown | October 22, 1998 (1998-10-22) (Canada) June 21, 1999 (1999-06-21) (UPN) |
| 3 | 3 | "All for One" | Don McBrearty | Sharon Corder & Jack Blum | October 29, 1998 (1998-10-29) |
| 4 | 4 | "Seventh Game" | John Fawcett | Julie Lacey | November 12, 1998 (1998-11-12) |
| 5 | 5 | "Off Season" | Unknown | Unknown | November 19, 1998 (1998-11-19) |
| 6 | 6 | "Brothers in Arms" | Unknown | Unknown | November 26, 1998 (1998-11-26) |
| 7 | 7 | "The Bad Boy" | Unknown | Unknown | December 3, 1998 (1998-12-03) |
| 8 | 8 | "Purple Hazing" | Unknown | Unknown | January 6, 1999 (1999-01-06) |
| 9 | 9 | "Family Values" | Unknown | Unknown | January 13, 1999 (1999-01-13) |
| 10 | 10 | "Pucks the Size of Beach Balls" | Unknown | Unknown | January 20, 1999 (1999-01-20) |
| 11 | 11 | "High Noon" | Unknown | Unknown | February 3, 1999 (1999-02-03) |
| 12 | 12 | "Dire Straits" | Unknown | Unknown | February 10, 1999 (1999-02-10) |
| 13 | 13 | "Waked at the Forum" | Unknown | Unknown | February 17, 1999 (1999-02-17) |

### Season 2: 1999–2000

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
| 14 | 1 | "Everything Is Broken" | David Wu | Glenn Davis & William Laurin | October 15, 1999 (1999-10-15) |
| 15 | 2 | "Resign or Re-Sign" | Richard J. Lewis | Sharon Corder & Jack Blum | October 22, 1999 (1999-10-22) |
| 16 | 3 | "Manipulation" | Unknown | Unknown | October 29, 1999 (1999-10-29) |
| 17 | 4 | "Evasion" | Unknown | Unknown | November 12, 1999 (1999-11-12) |
| 18 | 5 | "Temptation" | Unknown | Unknown | November 19, 1999 (1999-11-19) |
| 19 | 6 | "The Truth" | Unknown | Unknown | December 2, 1999 (1999-12-02) |
| 20 | 7 | "The Jumper" | Unknown | Unknown | December 9, 1999 (1999-12-09) |
| 21 | 8 | "The Mask" | Unknown | Unknown | December 16, 1999 (1999-12-16) |
| 22 | 9 | "Foolish Hearts" | Unknown | Unknown | January 13, 2000 (2000-01-13) |
| 23 | 10 | "The Quarter Finals" | Unknown | Unknown | January 20, 2000 (2000-01-20) |
| 24 | 11 | "The Cubicle" | Unknown | Unknown | February 3, 2000 (2000-02-03) |
| 25 | 12 | "The Finals" | Unknown | Unknown | February 10, 2000 (2000-02-10) |
| 26 | 13 | "What It All Meant" | Unknown | Unknown | February 17, 2000 (2000-02-17) |