GDT: Gold Medal Game - May 22 - Finland vs Canada - Part III

[Malcolm]

In comparison, the same game in Finland:

Average amount of viewers on TV and internet: 2.22 M
Overall reachout of viewers: 3.25 M
Average amount of viewers during the best fifteen minutes period (9.45-10.00 pm EET): 2.72 M

That's out of 5,4 M total population and including only the home viewing (ie. sports bars etc. not counted in).

Had an interesting chat with one of the fathers of a Canadian player in Saint-Petersburg last week about our mutual respect for a small country like Finland producing such great players. He noted that the most populated areas in Canada now have a huge ethnic minority who are not interested in hockey but in cricket, soccer and field hockey. So the actual number of Canadians who are really interested in ice hockey is not as great as it seems to be. Very interesting.