A couple of players with St. John’s connections, along with Hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Cole, will be front and centre for the Rogers Hometown Hockey festivities this weekend in Mount Pearl.
That city is playing host to the seventh stop of Hometown Hockey and its hosts, Ron MacLean and Tara Slone.
The Festival runs from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. Sunday’s events get under way at 2 p.m. and runs through to the end of the Rogers Hometown Hockey outdoor viewing party. The latter starts with a 9 p.m. live Pre-Game Show with MacLean and Slone followed by a Las Vegas Knights at Edmonton Oilers game.
From start to finish, there will be games, trivia, music and entertainment and autograph sessions with NHL alumni Teddy Purcell and Nik Antropov.
Purcell, a St. John’s native, played 10 seasons in the NHL, accumulating 327 points. Purcell is now retired and living in Los Angeles.
Antropov spent most of the 2001-02 season with the American Hockey League’s St. John’s Maple Leafs.
Antropov, from Kazakhstan, would enjoy an 823-game NHL career. He’s now retired and living in Toronto.
Cole, a St. John’s resident who is in the final year of a brilliant play-by-play career that started in 1969, will join MacLean and Slone on set Sunday evening.
