Canucks on HNIC

The website for the CBC, Canada's government-funded TV network that takes ad revenue and has as one of its most popular shows an American cartoon, has a list of all the games that they will show as part of Hockey Night in Canada. HNIC is, historically, all of Saturday night during the fall and winter as well as spring during the playoffs, though sometimes—especially the playoffs—those days are weekdays and/or Sundays. The listing they show isn't very useful, I found, since they show the times in Eastern and there's no obvious way to quickly switch to Pacific, the time zone I currently reside in. Also, it's not clear to me which team is the home team. (I guessed, correctly, that it was the team on the right.) Also, it's not in calendar format.

So, mostly to experiment with Drupal's features (Event + Location + Views), I created a calendar of all the Vancouver Canucks games shown on the CBC. I even created an iCal feed (which doesn't really work...). Why only Canucks games? Because that's the team I cheer for. Why games only on the CBC? Because that's the only channel showing hockey games that's not on TV that requires me to pay money. I could, though, add the games that are pay-per-view and on other networks, since I do occasionally go to a buddy's house and watch those games.

(If there are any errors in the calendar, let me know and I can make the change.)

Yes, yet another Drupal-powered site, which you can sign up for and write a weblog for if you like. I plan on writing there not very often, not really knowing what I'm talking about, but I'd like it to be an aggregation point for everything that people—bloggers and others—are writing with regards to my longtime-favourite hockey team.