Powerplay was a television drama show, which aired from 1998 to 2000 on CTV. The show was filmed at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. The series starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York sports agent who became a National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads' general manager. The team one of those plots of this show managed Parker love -- hate relationships with the sport and also his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate Colleen Blessed, played with Kari Matchett. The cast also contained Gordon Pinsent as Jonathan Crombie, team operator Duff McArdle, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a updated version of this Stompin' Tom Connors classic,"The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning into the functioning of the ring Rusty. The series had been aired about the US network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after two episodes. The installment has the distinction to be the lowest-rated bout of almost any prime time TV series aired with some other US network.