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On the eve of what was supposed to be the beginning of the NHL regular season, TSN puts lead NHL lockout negotiators Bill Daly (NHL Executive VP & Chief Legal Officer) and Ted Saskin (NHLPA Senior Director) on The Hot Seat ? a one-hour special airing Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. and again at 10:30 p.m. (local time). Daly and Saskin will be put on the hot seat for 20 minutes each, facing tough, pointed questions from TSN Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie, TSN play-by-play voice Gord Miller and Toronto Star columnist Damien Cox. The three will press Daly and Saskin until they get the answers that hockey fans want ? and deserve ? to hear. The Hot Seat will be live-to-tape; Daly's and Saskin's answers will not be edited. The two will be kept separate and will not be able to hear each other's answers. After each 20-minute segment, a cross-country panel of respected journalists will evaluate Daly's and Saskin's answers and performance. The panel includes Montreal-based Michael Farber (Sports Illustrated, TSN The Reporters with Dave Hodge), Steve Simmons (Sun Media syndicated columnist, TSN The Reporters with Dave Hodge) and Eric Francis (Calgary Sun, Molson That's Hockey). Hosted and moderated by TSN's James Duthie, The Hot Seat will be taped from the NHL on TSN studio. "Tuesday night marks the eve of what would have been the upcoming season. Normally we would be talking about the biggest things to watch for this year. With no hockey, we have an obligation to our viewers to address why there is no hockey, and the best way to do so is to speak directly with the two lead negotiators on the frontlines of this battle," said Mark Milliere, Executive Producer of News & NHL on TSN. The Hot Seat comes on the heels of The TSN Solution, unveiled this past Monday, in which McKenzie and Miller identified the five key issues surrounding the NHL lockout and offered solutions to each. On Monday, TSN.ca had a remarkable 158,000 unique visitors to the site and has since received 850 responses from users in the "Your Call" forum section of the Web site. TSN is Canada's Sports Leader. Setting the Canadian sports broadcasting standard, TSN's flagship news program, SportsCentre, was voted the number-one source for sports news by sports fans from across the country. TSN's comprehensive broadcast schedule also includes the NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs and international hockey, the Olympic Games, CFL, NFL, PGA TOUR and all four golf Majors, curling, NASCAR, Formula One, Champ Car and IRL auto racing, Blue Jays baseball, NBA, tennis, soccer, figure skating and amateur sports action. TSN is available in eight million households. TSN's programming and news content is also available on-line at TSN.ca.
