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"""17.6/33 overnight rating, via Sports Business Daily. Writes Lepore:

This is up 46% from the 2002 USA/Canada showdown, and will very likely be the highest-rated hockey game since 1980. The share means that 1 in every 3 Americans with a TV were watching the game. This is, to put it professionally, out of this world.

Sunday's game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since 1998, and every NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four game since at least '98.

Excluding the NFL, the 17.6 overnight for the game is the second-highest of the year for any sporting event, behind only the Texas/Alabama BCS National Championship Game in January (18.2)."""

IMPRESSIVE!!!
 
Vegas Dave
I wish NBC would have done better than those fucking idiots Jeremy Roenick and Mike Milbury with such a huge audience. My God what a pair of hacks.
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ain't that the truth. And to think I used to like Roenick.
Until the NHL opens up the ice and showcases the skill of players and not the grind most Americans will rightfully not care. It was a fun league as recent as the early 90's. (and the 1st season after the strike)
 
Herman
It's impossible to catch on when the sport is not televised.

If ESPN aired games, I'd give it a chance of catching on. Impossible to without.
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WRONG thats the thing. ESPN had an option to pick up NHL from Versus and they passed because rating just aren't there. As much as I like hockey and it pains me to say it...its a niche sport in the U.S. People that love hockey will find it and watch it and buy the packages. People that don't watch hockey now will not watch it more if it is televised more and on more common channels, they have done many many studies that back this up...

As I said in another thread...NHL does have a nice opportunity right now but it is a very small window. Bettman needs to parlay this game yesterday into something more...he has a chance to increase popularity, it will be interesting to see if he does anything. My guess is no.
 
I watched the gold medal game at a friends house with about 20 people, people were all into it. 24 hours later I had to call 5 friends before I could give away Bruins Canadiens tickets for free for tomorrows game. Doesn't seem like it has caught on.
 
Does not mean a thing.

Same thing could happen if a horse wins the triple crown.

Does that mean people are going to start betting Philly Park on a Tuesday afternoon?

No.

Basically,hockey and horse racing are in the same boat in that THEY have to pay networks to carry their product.
 
Impressive, but I really doubt it has much of a positive effect on the popularity of the NHL, even in the short term. Hockey remains a Canadian/Northeast US thing and it should be marketed as such. Like most Canadians, I'll never understand the logic in trying to make it a US-wide sport.
 
reno cool
fair point. Everyone doesn't have to like everything.
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Actually, I think that hockey would gain in mainstream popularity if the NHL went back to its roots and killed all the teams that are in inhospitable markets. I say give the sport its regional flavor back and watch it become more appealing to the average sports fan. No one wants to watch the Atlanta Thrashers play the Florida Panthers.
 
And the Jets and the Nordiques. Then get rid of Carolina, Atlanta, Phoenix, Dallas (and give the Stars brand back to Minnesota), Florida, Tampa, Nashville, 2 of the 3 California teams (sorry VegasDave and/or blitty) and one of the NY/NJ area teams, Devils or Islanders. Redistribute the top talent among the ~20 remaining teams. The product becomes stronger and more appealing to advertisers, TV deals get signed, marquee matchups are shown several times a week on US network TV and everyone profits.

But no. Bettman and his fucked-up vision will probably try to get a team into fucking China instead.
 
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