Canada’s Hockey Anthems is a brand new audio CD released in Canada during the Olympics and features 22 classic rock and pop hits that are staple songs played at N.H.L. hockey arenas coast-to-coast. Billy Talent, Ramones, KISS, Tragically Hip, Iron Maiden, Iggy Pop, Nickleback, and more are featured on the disc (see CD back below for complete song listing.)

The brand new CD is sealed in plastic with a numbered Olympic holographic sticker.

This special edition CD was produced only for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and is being distributed just in Canada. It currently sells on Amazon.com for much more than HoundsTV is offering it here for.

ITEM: Limited Edition CD – Canada’s Hockey Anthems – Sounds of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games (Audio CD – 2010 – Available only in Canada)
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The stick Sidney Crosby used to score the Gold medal winning overtime goal over Team U.S.A. has gone missing.

After Crosby scored, he ripped off his gloves and threw his stick in the air. As reported by the Toronto Star. “When they cleared the ice, I never got my stick or gloves,” Crosby said after the game.

Now, Hockey Canada is investigating and really wants to see the stick returned. It’s a piece of Hall Of Fame worthy memorabilia now. Investigators are looking through all television and venue video footage in hopes of spotting who could have grabbed the stick from the ice. “We have some leads,” is all Hockey Canada’s Scott Salmond would say.

As for the Sid The Kid’s gloves – one of the gloves was returned to Hockey Canada from a fan who caught it when Crosby threw it OVER the glass.

HoundsTV has discussed this with a few people today and is wondering…

Was the fan not within their rights to keep Crosby’s glove?

Unless their are specific rules stating otherwise, we think the glove is fair game once Crosby threw it over the glass into the crowd. Like a historical home run in baseball.

If Crosby’s stick was snatched from the ice surface or in the locker room – that is clearly theft and his stick should be returned. But a glove thrown over the glass?

The person who got Sid’s glove might be feeling pretty good today about returning it to Hockey Canada. We thinks they needlessly gave up a $25,000 piece of historical memorabilia.

“Of all the things, I got my mouthguard back. I don’t know where (the other equipment) is.” – SIDNEY CROSBY

Thanks to CanadaGraphs for the great photos he snapped all during the Olympics. Be sure to check out the CanadaGraphs blog for his behind-the-scenes stories of hounding the 2010 Winter Games.

photos courtesy CanadaGraphs

(HoundsTV – Vancouver) With the Winter Olympic Games coming to a successful close in Canada. The autograph collectors were spending a final day at the airport hoping to catch some of the last athletes leaving Vancouver.

And who do the hounds spot heading out of the city together? Arrested Development brothers Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. (they seemed to be struggling a bit with the automatic check-in machine at YVR)

The actors were in Vancouver enjoying the Olympics Games (and perhaps talking about the upcoming Arrested Development movie which has finally been greenlit.)

Bateman and Arnett were happy to sign for the autograph seekers even mentioning they watched the big Canada vs. U.S. hockey game together (though, we have to assume the Toronto-born Arnett was cheering Canada all the way.)

Colbert jumped on the Olympic Winter Games bandwagon when he got word that the U.S. Speed Skating team had lost their major sponsor – a bank that caught up in the recent American financial squeeze.

Colbert, through pleas on his Colbert Robert program raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure the Speed Skating team got a smooth ride to the Vancouver Games.

Colbert would follow the team to Vancouver to tape some segments for his show. Of course, since the Colbert Report and it’s network – Comedy Central are not official Olympic broadcast partners – Colbert played up the fact that he would not be legally able to use Olympic affiliated words like “Olympics,” “Winter Games, ” or “Vancouver 2010″ so Colbert titled his reporting;

“The Colbert Report Exclusive Vancouverage of the 2010 Quadrennial Cold Weather Athletic Competition.”

More than 4,000 rowdy fans crowded Vancouver’s Creekside Park for taping of the Colbert Report which also featured guests like Canadian crooner Michael Buble and American Gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.

photo: Toronto Star/Steve Russell via @TOstarphoto

Among the thousands of fans that showed up to greet Stephen Colbert in Vancouver – a few were dedicated autograph collectors. Our friend in Vancouver, CanadaGraphs, was very eager to greet Colbert. CG blogged about the Colbert experience:

The first day Mr. Colbert showed up at about 10:15 AM, being driven in a tinted out minivan. Security drove him up as close to the walkway they had constructed as they could. Still being 50 or so feet away, Colbert had to walk thru a swarm of fans, overzealous security & of course 5-8 autograph hounds. Not once did Stephen seem bothered by the near mob like situation, happily signing & walking, signing some more, walking some more. He was clearly a class act.” – CANADAGRAPHS

Sponsored by Budweiser – spotted on the red carpet were Michael Buble, Jon Hamm, Tara Lapinski, U.S. snowboarder Louie Vito, Glee star Matthew Morrison and many more.

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Guests and VIP’s were treated to generous supplies of Budweiser beer and body-painted men and women gyrating on podiums on the dance floor.

Big thanks to miss604.COM and John Bollwitt for the Flickr photo set.

(HoundsTV – Vancouver) It’s no surprise the Winter Olympic Games can be a bit of a media circus. And it starts quick for arriving athletes.

Like as soon as they get off the plane. The Vancouver airport is also a popular hit with media because its one of the VERY few places where unaccredited journalists can get a shot at the athletes.

And the Olympic participants usually don’t mind talking. Heck, they have worked hard to get hear for years, its there turn to shine and they deserve it. So when Canadian Olympic figure skater Patrick Chan came threw YVR he was more than happy to spend some time talking with the media – and signing for the collectors.

The last big notables of these Winter Games – the Canadian men’s hockey team came through YVR on Sunday to a large scrum of media and awaiting fans.

(HoundsTV) Talk about blowing it in Vancouver.

That is, the final Olympic torch lighting.

We know our Canadian athletes will hold up far better under the pressure of Olympic competition then these Opening Gala organizers did in Vancouver.

I was sitting with friends watching the 2010 Opening Ceremonies when like the rest of Canada’s largest ever television audience – a sense of horror overcame me as it became clear something was malfunctioning with lighting the final flame. What if they couldn’t get the thing lit? The final torchbearers – Rick Hansen, Catriona Le May Doan, Steve Nash, Nancy Greene, and The Great One just seemed to stand around rather dumbstruck.

And who designed these huge arms of this Olympic cauldron? Did nobody step back and suspect the big picture just might become ripe for ridicule?

Amid this train wreck of a final torch lighting in Vancouver – my friends and I began to think back to some of the more memorable torch lightings from Olympics past.

And one immediately came to mind. Muhammad Ali in 1996 from Atlanta. No big fancy designed sculptures and hydraulic arm thingees. Just a final Olympic flame which Ali ignited.

Simple. Intimate.

It’s what they should have done with Gretzky in Vancouver. It would have made a far more memorable final flame lighting.

And if they have kept it more simple there wouldn’t have been the chance for the mechanical screw-up there was – witnessed by about a billion people. Nice, eh?

What’s that good, old mantra… KISS? The end of the Olympic torch relay and lighting of the final flame in Canada would have been a much more special moment if the Games organizers just would have considered it.

(HoundsTV- Vancouver) One of the most talked about athletes of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games – American skiing star Lindsey Vonn arrived in Vancouver to much fanfare on Tuesday (February 9th.)

The super-model looking Vonn was greeted by a large group of fans, autograph collectors, and media as one of Team USA’s best medal hopes touched down in Vancouver. Despite the work of security and handlers to move Vonn quickly threw the crowds – Lindsey proved to be very fan-friendly, posing for pictures and signing lots of autographs – including the just published Sports Illustrated with Vonn on the cover.

HoundsTV has already heard from a few sources that the entourages and security around Olympic broadcaster NBC can be rough with crowds. During the encounter with Vonn – numerous sources reported that security working for NBC was literally pushing fans aside so they could “get their shot.” Bottom line, the American broadcaster seems to be running around the town like it owns it.

(HoundsTV – Vancouver) I often spend a lot of time on stories occurring in Toronto on HoundsTV. And in reality, Toronto can often be the center of the Universe here in Canada. For at least the next couple of weeks, the attention will surely shift to Vancouver – and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

And HoundsTV is gonna shift too. With the help of some special sources on the ground in Vancouver – especially our hounding friend JH from CanadaGraphs – we will tell some stories and share some photos from the Winter Games which has taken over the city.

A wealth of celebrities are expected in Vancouver. We’re already hearing the names Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Michael J. Fox, Wayne Gretzky and many more have planned appearances in Vancouver. That’s not to mention the wealth of former and future Olympic champions that will emerge at the Games.

And from what we hear already – it will be a battle to get close, meet, hound, and photograph any one of them. Security is extra tight at this edition of the Olympic Games – and we mean, real tight.

There really was a day, once-upon-a-time, when the patient fan could greet almost any Olympian near the athletes village or upon arrival at their playing venue. From what we hear, that’s just not the case anymore. CanadaGraphs reports that Olympic security is at the point where, “you won’t even see the athletes arrive at venues, let alone have a chance for an autograph. The fences are 10 feet high, covered by Olympic banners, guarded by countless police, and on average, a block away from the actual venue.”

So the savvy autograph collector and fan will have to find their moments at other spots around town to get up and close to celebrities and Olympic stars. And believe me, this group will.

But alas, that’s for future stories.

So we at HoundsTV wish everybody in Vancouver a safe and fun 2010 Winter Olympiad.

Let the Games begin!