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Semi-Finals: Bracket One

Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

With Mats Sundin getting a second nomination in the Best NHL Commercials tournament, we've narrowed it down from 25 outstanding commercials to 6 phenomenal commercials! There will now be two brackets with three commercials each, selected at random. Which of them ...

Bracket 6: The Last Ones

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The NHL Road Trip commercial scored the easy victory over its other opponents and look like heavy favourites to win the whole thing! Last but not least are four more older commercials featuring some of yesterday's best players in the ...

Bracket 5: The New Ones (2)

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Cup Raise defeats One Play by a 5-3 margin and now moves on to the semi-finals! Next up, four more of the NHL's newer commercials, featuring some of today's best players. Alexander Ovechkin - Sure, his English isn't great, and the ...

Bracket 4: The Epic Commercials

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Sidney Crosby and his first Gatorade commercial managed to keep McDonald's and their Mini Sticks ad from beating them out with a narrow 5-4 victory. The honourable mention goes to Verizon Wireless and their first commercial. Bracket 4 features the best ...

How Much Longer?

Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

A full 31 days after Mike Gillis dropped an atomic bomb on the NHL with a 20 million dollar offer for two years  to Mats Sundin, the Swede who has racked up Hall of Fame credentials with the Toronto Maple ...

Bracket 3: The New Ones

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

Winning in a comeback vote was Markus Naslund and Ilya Kovalchuk's Nike commercial by a score of 6-5! Naslund and Kovalchuk will now move on to the semi-finals. Up next is Bracket Three, featuring part one of the New Ones: 1. McDonald's ...

Bracket 2: Canuck Commercials

Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Mats Sundin and Wayne Gretzky's commercial with McDonald's has secured Bracket 1 and will be moving on to the semi-finals! Thanks to all who voted. Bracket Two is here, and it features some of the Canucks' best commercials: 1. The Sedin twins ...

Bracket 1: The Oldies

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Four videos fighting for supremacy: 1. Mats Sundin and Wayne Gretzky w/ McDonald's. In a commercial that was filmed sometime in the mid to late 1990s, Sundin and Gretzky show off their skills in order to find out who will buy ...

3 Weeks Later…

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Three weeks ago, there was a lot of uncertainty regarding the future of some of the NHL's prolific players. We had no gosh darn clue where Marian Hossa was going, a fortune teller couldn't have seen that ten million dollar ...

Draft Interview: Zach Boychuk

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Zach Boychuk is the lightning-quick speedster from Airdrie, Alberta and most recently, is one of the top prospects up for grabs at the upcoming 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He has represented Canada at the World U-18 Championships, the Summit Series ...