Canadian sports broadcaster TSN will be in Whitehorse later this month as part of a special six-hour tribute to the country's favourite sport.

Canada's Game: Hockey Lives Here will air on Saturday, Feb. 19, from noon to 6 p.m. Eastern time.

The special telecast features hockey-themed programming from nine locations across Canada one of those being Whitehorse.

TSN, in conjunction with the Aboriginal People's Television Network and Northern Native Broadcasting, will telecast live segments from a hockey game being played on the Yukon River.

The game will be a re-enactment of the 1905 Dawson City Nuggets' challenge of the Stanley Cup. The legendary two-game series between the Ottawa Senators and the Nuggets saw Dawson get defeated by Ottawa in the largest margin of victory for any Stanley Cup Final game to date.

This year is the 100th anniversary of that legendary battle.

TSN's Ryan Rishaug will be broadcasting live from the Yukon River, conducting interviews with players, coaches and local fans.

Rishaug is the newest addition to the SportsCentre crew as their Edmonton reporter, arriving at the national station in 2004.

Hockey Lives Here will be anchored by TSN's hockey telecast team, including Pierre McGuire, Gord Miller, Bob McKenzie, James Duthie, Dave Hodge, Gino Reda, Dave Randorf, Glenn Healy and Brian Burke.

The telecast will also feature action from the 46th annual Quebec International Pee Wee Hockey Tournament an 11-day tourney featuring 2,300 hockey players from 16 countries; the fourth annual World Pond Hockey Championships ñ� hosted in Plaster Rock, N.B. and featuring 96 teams; and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's hockey game.

More details on the telecast will be announced over the coming week.

This isn't the first time Whitehorse has been featured in a special national hockey telecast.

The CBC was in Whitehorse as part of its Hockey Day in Canada celebration in January 2002.

That celebration included interviews and telecasts from scheduled minor hockey games at Takhini Arena throughout the morning. They were done by local CBC reporters as no reporters from Outside made the trip north.

The CBC even borrowed an up-link truck from NBC affiliate KTUU in Anchorage for the telecast.