Some people think the world may end in 2012. But Battle of the Blades has me convinced it might just happen before then. The Canadian reality competition show has become a “smash hit” and the first season ended Monday.
The winners were Jamie Sale and Craig Simpson who played in the NHL for 11 years with three teams. The duo of Sale and Simpson defeated the combination of Shae-Lynn Bourne and Claude “The Fraud” Lemieux. Apparently Simpson was the best skater by a wide margin and “wowed audiences and the judges with his figure skating skills.”
Battle of the Blades has averaged 1.7 million viewers per episode in Canada. The CBC notes that the show truly became a success when the hockey players ditched their skates for figure skates. There’s already speculation that there will be a second season.
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