US Canada hockey game attracts a whopping 4.4 million viewers

Start with two proud hockey countries, add geopolitics to the equation and start the game with three fights in the first nine seconds of the game. What’s the score? An incredible number of the number of spectators for the USA and Canada in the 4 nations against Saturday.

ESPN said on Sunday that the United States’ 3-1 victory against Canada with a rock ‘Em Sock’ EM on Saturday evening in Montreal was an average of 4.4 million viewers. Viewer numbers reached its peak in the quarter of an hour with 5.2 million viewers. This is the most viewed non-stanley cup final since a Blue jackets bruins playoff game on NBC in 2019, which was an average of 4.5 million. The company SHelp The game rose by 369 percent compared to the current average for NHL games to ABC. To put things in the right perspective: NHL night season Games last year in ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and Trutv had an average of 1.54 million viewers per sport’s business journal.

The game on Saturday was the most watched NHL game in the United States since game 7 of the Panthers-Oiler Stanley Cup final last season, which looked at 7.67 million. It clearly showed the wish of hockey fans who have dreamed of best-on-best for years. The 2016 World Cup between the game of the USA and Canada led a total of 766,000 spectators.

The face-off of the 4 nations ends on Thursday in the main time with the championship game Live from Boston’s TD Garden at 8 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes. Canada will win a berth in the final when it defeats Finland in the regulation on Monday or when Finland is defeated in an extension or shootout, and a result of other Swedes than a regulation obtained by Sweden. The United States have already made their ticket for the final.

ESPN and the NHL clearly hope that the US Canada resignation will occur. If the Face-Off final of the 4 nations is to be broadcast on ABC with these two teams, we will surely see the 4.4 million viewers. The X factor is that the championship game is located on ESPN. Given the fact of how much attention was paid on Saturday and the political climate around the game, we will probably outperform the number on Saturday.

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