Former Red Wing Joins Cast For "Battle Of The Blades"
I'm no Dancing with the Stars fan, but I know a lot of people are. The show has been a monster hit since its inception and it has seen its fair share of athletes come through. So it seems only right that Canada came up with its own version of the show ... but added ice to the equation.
Battle of the Blades is a show on CBC that has the same concept as the dancing show -- combine a star with a dancer and whittle down to a winner -- but throws in some skates for good measure. Every team is made up of a hockey player and a figure skater and they compete in the world of artistic skating.
Basically, the show is a competition made out of the movie The Cutting Edge. Toe pick!
We bring this to attention because the CBC announced the contestants for the third season coming up. The list is headed by heavy fisted Wade Belak, who spent most of his brawling career with the Maple Leafs. Joining him is former No. 1 overall draft pick Bryan Berard, Brad May, Boyd Devereaux, Curtis Leschyshyn, Cale Hulse and the show's first female hockey competitor, Tessa Bonhomme.
Oh, and Jeremy Roenick is one of the show's regular judges. Who thought the guy would be this busy after retirement?
Last season's champion team was Valeri Bure with figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva. The first season was won by Craig Simpson and Jamie Sale (you will remember her from the shared gold medal controversy at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics).
Belak isn't the first fighter to bust out his graceful side. Georges Laraque was on the cast for Season 2, and while he didn't beat Bure's team, he did have one memorable, and scary, moment.
