Chris Marshak
Played By: Chris Tessaro
Position: Left Wing (Simpsie's winger, Todd plays RW on the line)
Sweater Number: 14
Shoots: Left
Height: 5'10
Weight: 170 lbs.
Birthplace: Hamilton Ontario
Years pro: 11
Marshak's the team prankster, Todd being one of his victims. Here's Marshak's character Bio, not written by me!: "Marshak is the gritty checking winger on Simpsie's line. As a
player, he always has his nose in the corners, and is an excellent defensive
forward. Off the ice, he is a practical joker, always playing pranks on the
guys and kidding around. He is single, and a bit of a ladies man. Strand
hates him for making wise cracks about his hair. His career highlight is
hitting Simpson with a 100 foot breakaway pass that allowed Simpsie to score
the goal that won the Steelheads the Cup."
Jackie McCloud
Played By: They never showed his face, so a bunch of guys played him...
Position: Goalie
Sweater Number: 31
Birthplace: I'm guessing Canada
Uh ok, unfortunately, I don't think Jackie McCloud ever got any actual speaking parts. I thought it would have been
cool to develop his characters, because goalies are often the most interesting players...anyway Jackie came in and did an awesome job filling
in for Shakey Al Tremblay...a particularly good one is Episode #20, second season, "The Jumper".
Boris Kerensky
Played By: Ryan Scott
Position: Wing???
Sweater Number: 13...but maybe that was Brainiac...ahh I forget!
Birthplace: Russia
Yet another Parker "bright idea". He brought him in from the German league during the
playoffs for some extra scoring help (you definitely can't do that in real life...)...at first I didn't like him, but hey, he was
good, he had a cool accent, he looked hot and then there was the infamous: "I no like fight." Oh, and apparently he skates
like a ballerina.
Peter Robinson
Played By: Again, I don't know (if anyone can help me out in these it would be great!)
Position: Forward, I think
Sweater Number: 75 (*this* I remember!)
Family: Wife, Lynne
Episode He Appeared In: Episode #9, "Family Values" (the "orange juice episode") I don't know if he was in eralier episodes as all...
Peter cheated on his wife, and then he tried to get poor Brainiac to fix it all up...I liked
this epsiode, especially Brainiac's "sex conversation" with Shakey.
Wynn
Played By: ???
Sweater Number: 10
Epsiode He Was Predominantely Featured In: Epsiode #24, second season, "The Cubicle" ("the gay episode")
Wynn is the homophobic pig in "the gay episode". I want to say more, but that would give away the entire
episode. So I won't say a thing and you'll just have to watch the show! By the way, they never say his first name, they just call him Wynn.
***I think that's all the players!!!***
*The Steelheads Front Office*
Duff McArdle, Owner
Played By: Gordon Pinsent
Duff is the team's somewhat eccentric, colourful owner. He tries whatever he can to keep his Steelheads in Hamilton,
his hometown. Duff, 66, is a self-made millionare, through the steel industry, and he's great supporter of local charities and is
known throughout the financial community as a tough but fair businessman. He lives in the Copps Coliseum rafters, and spends his time watching reruns of Front Page
Challenge and drinking brands of beer that no one remembers (and Molson Canadian in old bottles!). He also *loves* to eat Bugles. Mr. McArdle loves hockey and has tons of interesting
stories that Parker always tries to avoid...hehe: "I'm not as crazy as I seem. Which is a good thing given how crazy I seem." (to Parker)
Brett Parker, General Manager
Played By: Michael Riley
Parker, as *everyone* except his girlfriends (he's had 2 not including the one in New York he left) calls him, is the main character or the show.
You wouldn't know it because I put him way down here, but he is. Intially, he was a New York sports agent, and was for 13 years, but he left NY to come back to his hometown, Hamilton,
and be the GM of the Steelheads. He didn't really want to, but I haven't even seen that episode so I won't go into details...anyway, let's see, apparently, he had a
successful junior hockey career that won him a scholarship to Providence, Rhode Island, and his dad played professionally for the Hershey Bears but died in car accident when Brett was young.
But Parker is a slick, smooth, agent-type-even-though-he's-a-GM. He makes sneaky, manipulative moves to get what he wants in both is professional and personal (well most of the time) life.
That's why he drives everyone insane. However, even though he seems like a money-driven, American, doesn't give a shit about the game type of guy, deep in his heart, he's a good Canadian boy, and he knows it.
And plus, he is a pretty smart hockey man. He seems to be in conflict with absolutely everyone, especially Colleen, see below. They have this "thing" (in the words of his
daughter Michelle). Kind of an on again, off again, but mostly off type of romance going. They drive each other insane and are constantly bickering but Parker's secretly (but not really because Colleen knows it) in
love with her. He always denies it though. The difference between the two is that Parker acts more desperate about it then Colleen. Well, Parker is a pretty evil guy, but he's also good, deep down. The last episode is great.
I'll leave you with a great Parker quote, from the last episode: "French cook, Italians paint, Canadians play hockey." (to Rae-Anne Simpson, explaining that hockey is the way Mark expresses himself)
Renata D'Alessandro
Played By: Lori Alter
Nickname: Okay, this isn't a nickname, but Parker often calls her Rrrrrrrenata!
Renata is Parker's frank, funny, and organized personal assistant. You could say she's like Parker's conscience, as he once suggested, but she said, "Mr. Parker, I'm nothing like your conscience. For one thing, I exist!" She also gets a lot of attention from guys, becuase she's pretty and she "has the body" (I think Ted "Battleship" Russel said that). However, Parker's not one of the guys who drools all over her, as he treats her like a real person, which one of the big reasons Renata likes working for him. She tries to keep him in line and not do anything too illegal, but he mostly ignores her when he's got a slick plan in action. Sometimes he makes her *really* mad though. But usually, she just does her job, even though she doesn't agree with almost everything Parker does. But he definetely does consider her a good friend, as seen in Epsiode #18, second season, "Temptation". Also, as you can see in the pic above, she's a pretty good singer. Sometimes she sings O Canada. She's a good
national anthem singer, but I don't like how she over emphasizes the end. And it is Lori Alter, the actress that plays her, that's actually singing. A side note, Lori Alter was a guest on TSN's Off The Record (weekdays, 3:00 pm PT) once. She was cool. She was on with a guy from Westlife, hahaha. It was sad because it said "Lori Alter, former star of Power Play."
Colleen Blessed, President
Played By: Kari Matchett
Nickname: Coco (only to Duff, she freaked out when Parker called her that)
Usually I can't stand Colleen...I mean, compared to her, Parker's cool. First of all, she tried to move the team to Houston. She doesn't know anything about hockey,
and she's a bitch. Especially that thing she did in the "Purple Hazing" epsiode at the end...I only liked her when she was "with" Parker...they
always have these little fights. But they're so secretly in love with each other. On a side note, Kari Matchett, the actress who played Colleen, was on the TSN show Off The Record (weekdays, 3:00 pm PT). She was actually
pretty cool, and I agreed with most of the stuff she said, but she did the same annoying hand gesture thing that she does on the show...
Harry Strand, Head Coach
Played By: Neil Crone
This man's insane. That's his "place on the rainbow", from "The Cubicle" on the right. But that's actually after he came back from the nuthouse, as Parker calls it. That smile you see on the left, is one of his creepy "smiles".
He's even got a creepy laugh to go along with it. Neil Crone, the guy that plays him, was in a Sears commercial though, and he did the same laugh. Scary...Strans was mentally unstable in a mean way, when he came back, he was mentally unstable in a nice way. He was still creepy. He ruined Shakey Al Tremblay's career . But it was hilarious how
Parker drove Strand insane....."Cough, cough, Maskalnikov."
SM3 Regan Sexsmith
Played By: Once again, I do not know.
Yeah, I realize that picture is quite frightening, but there's no such thing as a good picture of Sexsmith. She, in Duff's words, is the "government man" Duff tried to get the government to help him keep the Steelheads in Hamilton, but he ended up with
Regan Sexsmith running the team. She came wih her ridiculous ideas like raising the temperature in the rink and "province lines". She even followed some guy into the men's bathroom to dissuade him from helping Duff reacquire the Steelheads (Episode #20, second
season, "The Jumper"). Of course, Duff hated her, and how they ended up getting rid of her was hilarious (Episode #21, "The Mask")..."the tape".
*Other Characters*
Michelle Parker
Played by: Caterina Scorsone
Nickname: 'Chelle (To Parker)
Well, as you might guess, Michelle is (Brett) Parker's teenage daughter. I think she's really cool, and I really like that t-shirt she's wearing in the picture above, which is why I used it. Anyway she and Parker succeed in driving each other
completely nuts, which seems to happen with anyone and anything Parker comes within one metre of. You see, Parker abandoned Michelle when she was little, to go to New York. Then he came back to Hamilton. Michelle often calls her dad "Brett",
and I guess they don't have the normal father-daughter relationship. But Parker's not a normal dad. Anyway, even though they have their share of fights and arguments, in the end, they love each other. A good episode is "The Bad Boy". Sometimes I
find Michelle annoying, but usually I think she's cool.
Rose Thornton
Played By: Krista Bridges
Nickname: Not a nickname, but Parker always called her Thornton From The Spectator, until they started going out
Thornton is the super-naive and gullible reporter for the Hamilton Spectator. She'll believe practically anything. She's also apparentely on a search for The Truth. She constantly annoyed Parker, and it was pretty funny...but then she started sleeping with him, a relationship Renata was copletely against...anyway she got *really* annoying. She used to have a crush on Brainiac that was funny!
Rae-Ann Simpson
Played By: Fiona Highet
Rae-Ann is Simpsie's wife. I don't really like her, 'cause she's pushy about trying to get Mark to retire. But oh well. I loved the part in one episode where she talks about what made her fall in love with Mark. Their son Andy is cute.
Hudson James
Played By: Jonathan Crombie
Birthplace: United States
Hudson James, love the name. He's Michelle's (yup, Parker's daughter) super annoying husband. He works for his dad's company, MentaCorp, or something, and he's trying to start it up in Canada. Naturally, he and Parker hate each other.
He's exactly like Parker (even though Michelle tries not to believe that) but even worse. He doesn't have the good side that Parker has. Well he does, in a way, but I perfer Parker. At least Parker loves hockey. Hudson doesn't care about it. Michelle really was looking for a father figure. But it's pretty bad because Parker and Hudson always fight over stuff, like clients,
but Michelle always somehow gets involved.
*LINKS*
The Official Power Play Website
Power Play Screen Captures...thanks to this site for the tons of awesome pictures!
Jonathan Rannells (the guy who plays TODD MAPLETHORPE!) Unplugged
Monica's Power Play Site (thanks for the pic of Duff)
Power Play At The Dean McDermott Brigade
Power Play At The Internet Movie Database
Power Play Cast & Crew Biographies At CTV
Michael Riley Fan Page
Article On Power Play At Suite 101
Articles About Power Play (just ignore the first article)
A Power Play Fan Fic Site...no-one's contributed...come on people, get your creative juices flowing...
Yahoo! Power Play Fan Club
::MY TODD MAPLETHORPE TRIBUTE!!!!!::
