Living further north means our cable provider provides us with CBC Television. They show a lot of hockey (in season of course). And while ABC relegated its World Figure Skating Championships coverage to weekends and a few hours on ESPN, CBC ran consecutive evenings of coverage. It was during the skating that I noticed all the commercials promoting “Hockey Night.” It sounded like Monday Night Football or Must See TV. I started wondering — is there really a Hockey Night in Canada or is it all a marketing fabrication? Of course the answer is on the web. Hockey Night in Canada has been an institution on Canadian television since 1952 and prior to that on radio starting in 1933. Fans of the show are as devoted to it as they are to the sport it covers, and you can read laments from homesick Canadians and raves from current devotees across the web. You can get a ringtone of the theme song for your mobile phone. You can purchase special HNIC jerseys. You can sign an online petition to keep your favorite HNIC broadcaster. This is no marketing hype. It is hockey (night) in Canada.