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i imagine they get overshadowed by the nba finals too

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I find tinsel distracting.

They should structure the finals to wrap up in late February, the playoffs leading up to the finals would go up against football but mainly just on weekends.- its seasonal for hockey and it is the time window where very little is going on in the sports world. Once the weather turns, NCAAs and baseball starts -then hockey season is over, except for fanatics.

Wow. That's fantastic. I had a moment like that once in the midst of a giant food fight.

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Silence is golden.

Pretty nice ass there.

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Game 7 got a 5.8 overnight rating in the U.S. That's about 8.2-8.5 million viewers. In Canada, it was probably three to four times that many. It also was the most-watched hockey game of all time.

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Drew a 43.6 rating in Boston alone. Wonder how many of those 8.2-8.5MM were outside New England. On the breakdown by the half-hour, the overwhelmingly most-watched half-hour block was the 10:30PM Eastern block. Or, more people tuned in to watch the skating of the Cup than the winning of it (9+MM viewers in that block, compared to under 7MM for the first two half-hour periods of the broadcast.)

Not the most-watched hockey game of all time. The most-watched Game 7 of an NHL Finals of all-time. Last year's CHI-PHI had a bigger draw. US-Canada in the last Olympics drew a viewership of 27.6 million. Still, though, good sign for the league.

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How does this compare to the NBA? Those pretty much compete head on.

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I only think the two compete in season only. There's bound to be some overlap between the two audiences, but I doubt it's all that much.

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Not sure if they compete head-on too much.

Hockey audiences are very local, and the NBA has a more national audience, and just an overwhelmingly bigger audiece in total in the US. Last year in Chicago you could not go into a bar during the NHL playoffs and not get wrapped up in televised Blackhawks games. Wrigleyville erupted, with people flooding onto Clark Street, the second the winning goal was scored. The whole city was a hockey town....for about six weeks.

Same time one year later, good luck finding a bar showing hockey. I walked down Clark last night from the iO to Roscoe, and every bar I passed had the Cubs game on. Not sure I noticed more than one or two TVs showing hockey. But during the NBA Finals, even during Cubs games, every bar on Clark Street was packed with people watching and cheering a basketball team from Dallas.

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It looks like a movie set. It's also not where my hand would be.

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