 The games ' broadcasts were produced by Hockey Canada , using experienced hockey commentators from Canadian television networks . In English , CBC Television ( CBC ) and CTV Television Network ( CTV ) split the coverage , with CTV carrying games one , three , five , seven and eight , while CBC aired games two , four , six and eight . Foster Hewitt called the plays and former player Brian Conacher was the commentator for all of the games . At the request of the broadcasters , Hewitt came out of semi @-@ retirement to be part of the broadcast . In French , all games were broadcast on SRC and the broadcast team was Rene Lecavalier and former player Gilles Tremblay . For the eighth game , it was estimated that 16 million Canadians watched the match . ( A year earlier , the national census had counted 21 @,@ 963 @,@ 000 Canadians . ) 
