 thumb|on-air tv logo for la soirÃ©e du hockey, used in program identification, title card, and for tv on-air uniforms of tv on-air personalities. la soirÃ©e du hockey (literally translated to the night of hockey) was a popular ice hockey show in canada. it was the french language radio-canada equivalent of the english canadian cbc show hockey night in canada. the show used "the hockey theme" as its theme song. ==games covered== la soirÃ©e du hockey most frequently featured montreal canadiens games on saturday evenings, often in parallel with english-language broadcasts on cbc. in later years cbc would drop some of its split-national telecasts in the 7:00pm et window, resulting in a single national telecast at that time (almost always featuring the toronto maple leafs), while radio-canada would continue to feature the canadiens. in past years the broadcast would feature quebec nordiques and ottawa senators games occasionally during the regular season if the canadiens were not playing that night. ==2002â03 deal with rÃ©seau des sports== beginning with the 2002â03 season, rds secured exclusive french language rights to the nhl. the deal, reached with the canadiens and not directly with the league, was meant to ensure a consistent home for all canadiens games, whereas, as a general-interest network, radio-canada could not give up so much airtime to canadiens games. the announcement drew the ire of, among others, then-heritage minister sheila copps, who suggested that the network would somehow be violating its conditions of licence by not airing la soirÃ©e du hockey. in fact, there is no specific mention in the cbc's licence from the crtc (or any other legal document governing the cbc) that the cbc's networks carry coverage of nhl games, nor that there be parity between the two networks' carriage of such games. ===le hockey du samedi soir=== radio-canada soon reached an agreement to produce the saturday night games, to remain branded la soirÃ©e du hockey, to be simulcast on both src and rds. however, for reasons that are unclear, that agreement was terminated after the 2004 playoffs.tsn : nhl - canada's sports leader the rds-produced replacement, le hockey du samedi soir, was simulcast on src outside quebec, where rds has limited distribution, through 2006. french-language rights to nhl hockey became exclusive to rds in 2006; the national package, including all saturday broadcasts, then moved to tva sports (under sub-licence from rogers communications) in 2014. while rogers has licensed the rights to the "hockey night in canada" name from the cbc for its saturday broadcasts (s
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