The Boston Bruins' Stanley Cup-clinching Game 7 victory over the Vancouver Canucks stands as the most-watched National Hockey League game on American television since 1973. The Game 7 victory was seen by about 8.5 million people on NBC, the Nielsen Co. said. That's the biggest audience since a 1973 playoff contest between the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks. A winner-takes-all game between a Boston franchise that hadn't won professional hockey's championship in 39 years and a team that has never won the Stanley Cup proved a real draw, said NHL spokesman Frank Brown. "You had the international competition of a team based in Canada against the league's longest-standing U.S.-based team," Brown said. "You had the rivalry of an East Coast port city against a West Coast port city. You had two of our most passionate fan bases tweeting, blogging and Facebooking like crazy. The spotlight was bright and the energy was remarkable." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6688387
I think the number might be bigger, I hate the NBC announcers so I watched it on the CBC. Its always a good time listing to a Canadian team lose on that station.
