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Originally Posted by Garry Coleman":e9885][quote=ninty9]"CBC drew 3.063 million viewers for Tuesday's broadcast of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final, making it the second-highest rated NHL game ever for the network. Only Game 7 of the 1994 final between Vancouver and the New York Rangers drew more viewers, with 4.957 million tuning in to watch the 3-2 Rangers win."

This recoprd is going to be broken before we're done I bet.

[url="http://www.canada.com/sports/hockey/nhlplayoffs2004/story.html?id=261FCB6D-6F2C-423E-A118-DBBC86735710

http://www.canada.com/sports/hockey/nhl ... BC86735710[/url]

that's probably the largest suprise I've seen in a long time.[/quote:e9885]

Thats Canada remember, not the states.

"It was a different story in the U.S., where Tuesday's game tied for the lowest-rated Stanley Cup final game on ESPN since 1990. Game 1 was watched by an average of 1,013,000 people. That translates into a rating of 1.1, which is down from 1.4 for last year's first game. Of the 34 Stanley Cup final games the network has televised since 1990, only Game 2 of last year's series between New Jersey and Anaheim had a rating as low. "

3 million people in Canada watch the game - thats 10% of the entire country. Thats pretty high. As for the states it was 1 million which is what? 0.004% I believe.

Just imagine if 2 Canadian teams made it. Like Edmonton - Toronto or Vancouver - Montreal, EVERYONE would watch that sucker.