His 17-year-old daughter, Michelle (Caterina Scorsone), resents and snaps at him for neglecting her throughout her life. Fortunately for him, he’s impervious to slight. Avuncular team owner Duff McCardle (Gordon Pinsent) seems behind the plan but has such conflicting emotions about moving the team that he loves that he has taken up residence in Copps Coliseum, where the Steelheads play and he assumes the role of folksy philosopher.Ī man who appears to irritate everyone, the cell-phoned, much-beepered, wheeling-dealing Parker is hardly a classic hero. The latter drive his secret pact with ruthless team President Colleen Blessed (Kari Matchett) to sell the Steelheads and move the franchise to Houston. Although hockey is the universe of “Power Play,” it’s less about sports than about Parker’s war with his personal demons, which he appears to be winning in the first five episodes, but just barely, while being constantly torn between doing good for Hamilton and the Steelheads and submitting to his baser instincts.

Powerplay 1999