Thread: Hockey is back in the USA!!!!!!! Game 6 highest rating Finals game since 1974

Game 6 Highest Rating Since 1974 Final!!!

Game 6 earns highest rating for NHL game since ’74
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Email Print NEW YORK (AP)—NHL television ratings have bounced back from the post-lockout doldrums—and way beyond.

The clincher of the Stanley Cup finals was the most-watched and highest-rated NHL game in 36 years. The Chicago Blackhawks’ 4-3 overtime win over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6, which earned them their first championship since 1961, drew a 4.7 rating and 8 share Wednesday night on NBC.

That’s the best since a 7.6/27 for Game 6 of the Boston-Philadelphia series in 1974. It was 38 percent higher than the 3.4/6 for last year’s Pittsburgh-Detroit Game 6 and 9 percent higher than the 4.3/8 for Game 7 in 2009.

The network said Thursday that the game was watched by 8.28 million viewers.

The series’ average rating was a 3.4/6, the best on network TV since Carolina-Detroit in 2002 and up 10 percent from last year.

“This has been a special year for hockey beginning with the Winter Classic continuing through the Olympics and ending with this incredibly exciting Stanley Cup final,” NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer said in a release.

Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program. Shares represent the percentage of all homes with TVs in use at the time.

Game 6 drew a 32.8 rating and 50 share in Chicago, which means that half of all homes with televisions in use were tuned into the game.


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well I'm hAPPY FOR YOU.

people still have the winter Olympics feel in their blood. I forgot it was on.

It might help if they actually televise the games.

I used to love hockey, but it's kind of hard to keep up when the games are never on.

A lot of good things came together for this years cup.....


Winter Olympics
Huge market of Chicago
Huge market of Philly
Chicago not winning a cup in 42 years


Baseball sucks!




Get back on the map hockey, we love ya!!!! And the youth of America will not let you fail!

Originally Posted by slim

It might help if they actually televise the games.

I used to love hockey, but it's kind of hard to keep up when the games are never on.

It was on NBC so it is a national network. sometimes the versus crap does hurt but the final 2 games were on National TV

Originally Posted by Medford Bronco

It was on NBC so it is a national network. sometimes the versus crap does hurt but the final 2 games were on National TV

Yeah, but I mean the regular season too.

I would watch it, if I could.

Originally Posted by slim

Yeah, but I mean the regular season too.

I would watch it, if I could.

I agree, i wish espn for comcast sports net got the games on nationally. heck even the nhl network is better than versus, a station that nobody can find

Problem is, as much fun as hockey is to watch live, its just not made for TV.

Baseball is about as boring as you can get when watching on TV, I mean.. its only good if you intend to take a nap for the afternoon.. but its fun to got to a ball game.

Hockey just isn't made for television.

Originally Posted by Ravage!!!

Problem is, as much fun as hockey is to watch live, its just not made for TV.

Baseball is about as boring as you can get when watching on TV, I mean.. its only good if you intend to take a nap for the afternoon.. but its fun to got to a ball game.

Hockey just isn't made for television.

Agreed but with high def it is definately better than before.

Also if you know the sport it is more watchable.

problem is too many people have no idea of all the rules

icing,
delayed offsides
fighting is allowed.

cant hit the puck in the net above the crossbar.
cant fire the puck in the crowd from your own zone without getting a penalty

if you tape your hands in a fight, match penalty and suspension.

and a million more.

I love hockey and miss it already

Originally Posted by Medford Bronco

Agreed but with high def it is definately better than before.

Also if you know the sport it is more watchable.

problem is too many people have no idea of all the rules

icing,
delayed offsides
fighting is allowed.

cant hit the puck in the net above the crossbar.
cant fire the puck in the crowd from your own zone without getting a penalty

if you tape your hands in a fight, match penalty and suspension.

and a million more.

I love hockey and miss it already

They tried to make it easier for TV watching.. with the blue puck... problem was (imo) is they made the blue dot too big. Made the puck look slow and cartoonish. Itw as great when they added the "see through" look for the near wall shots when the camera couldn't see the puck. THEN, they added in the 'red stripe' or whatever it was... when they fired a puck really fast. Again, made it look slower than it really was with ridiculous cartoonish graphics. The idea of the chip imbedded in the puck was great . But all the TV needed was a smal, tiny dot that would move around the ice at the speed of the puck so that the TV could keep track . That, imo, would have been HUGE for the TV audiences.

The real problem is the apex of hockey videogaming was reached 23 years ago



They need to make another good hockey game, to kids interested again

speaking of which, you can play it free online

http://nintendo8.com/game/618/blades_of_steel/

Originally Posted by ursamajor

The real problem is the apex of hockey videogaming was reached 23 years ago



They need to make another good hockey game, to kids interested again

lol

my favorite was