Last year's Pittsburgh Penguins-Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup Final was watershed moment for the NHL in it's post-lockout existence. It gave us one of the league's most storied franchises going up against a team led by two of the league's brightest talents in Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. the result of last year's finals was a TV ratings boon in the U.S., which gave the league its highest TV ratings in years.
So what does the NHL do for the encore, of course luck into a rematch of the same final. Thus far the ratings for the redux are ok. Here's how the ratings shakedown for thus far through two games:
Canadian ratings - CBC announced Monday that 1.875 million viewers watched the Detroit Red Wings take a 2-0 series lead over the Pittsburgh Penguins, a small increase over the 1.869 million who watched Game 2 last year. Game 1 saw a decrease from 2.1 to 1.7 million viewers. - Source: CP
The ratings in the U.S. are harder to compare on an exact game by game basis because last year's finals started with two games broadcast on little watched cable network Versus before the final four games of the series shifted to NBC.
Game 1 for this year drew a 2.6 rating and 5 share, the ratings went up the next night for Game 2 as NBC got a 3.4 rating and a 6 share. Last year for their four games NBC drew an average of a 3.2 rating and a 6 share.
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