NHL/hockey TV ratings 2024-25

[Brodie]

NHL , a league supposedly part of the major 4, having there opening games get beaten out by the wnba is absolutely embarrassing no matter how you spin it.

If the NHL can't exist in a market where more than four professional sports leagues are popular, then it's time for the NHL to just fold up. It's over.

Obviously, that's absurd, it's totally fine to be beaten by WNBA games and NBA preseason games and Mexican soccer games. All of that can happen and the NHL can be fine simultaneously

 

[Reaser]

-CANADA-
*Prime Monday Night Hockey*

Lightning-Leafs: 726k

AMA

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on ESPN avg viewership last night-

Capitals-Flyers: 477k
Avalanche-Kraken: 422k
Kings-Golden Knights: 245k

espn2 Frozen Frenzy: 83k

Edit: Was to add Frozen Frenzy #.

 

[Coinneach]

NHL TV ratings 2024/25

October:

Blues-Kraken: 348k (ESPN)
Bruins-Panthers: 790k (ESPN, non-exclusive)
Blackhawks-Utah: 522k (ESPN)
Rangers-Penguins: 467k (TNT+truTV)
Avalanche-Golden Knights 315k (TNT+truTV)
Wild-Blues: 417k (ESPN)
Flyers-Oilers: 333k (ESPN)
Sabres-Penguins: 512k (TNT+truTV)
Bruins-Avalanche: 340k (TNT+truTV)
Capitals-Flyers: 477k (ESPN)
Avalanche-Kraken: 422k (ESPN)
Kings-Golden Knights: 245k (ESPN)

 

[Reaser]

-CANADA-
*Saturday HNIC*

7pmET Window: 1.583M
10pmET CGY-SEA: 519k

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on ESPN avg viewership last night-

Capitals-Flyers: 477k
Avalanche-Kraken: 422k
Kings-Golden Knights: 245k

espn2 Frozen Frenzy: 83k

Edit: Was to add Frozen Frenzy #.

espn2 Frozen Frenzy: 83k

 

[Golden_Jet]

No chance hockey is third. NFL, NBA, MLB, college football, college basketball, golf, WNBA are all ahead of NHL.

that applies in the US only, not Canada it’s first, or European hockey markets, where it’s could be thirdish.

 

[S E P H]

espn2 Frozen Frenzy: 83k

Super weird to put it on the NBA's opening night.

 

[Chileiceman]

espn2 Frozen Frenzy: 83k

Yeesh, that is awful

 

[Reaser]

Yeesh, that is awful

Probably why it was so difficult to get the #.

Down from 196k for last years edition.

The usual explanation, it's a long runtime which hurts the average, particularly on the back end because it runs well into the AM in the Eastern Time Zone.

But 83k is 83k and it's not a good #.

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on TNT avg viewership last night-

Flyers-Capitals: 410k
-TNT: 339k
--truTV: 71k