Jets4Life
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It's no big deal. This has happened before in 2006 and 2007, and the NHL was not adversely affected. I'm willing to bet that a Edmonton-NYR series would outdraw a Dallas-NYR series. mcDavid and Draisaitl are. obviously not household name in America, but it would argubaly be a much more exciting series, and allows the league to showcase two of it's top offensive starts.this NYR loss hurt alot tonight. We need them in the SCF.
if it's DAL/NYR final.... SCF gm7 will get 8.784M viewers
if it's EDM/FLA final....SCF gm7 will get 2.973M viewers. (if they're lucky)
Edm/fla will be an embarassment for the NHL. No one will watch that final. They'll be watching reruns of Shark Tank instead. ..Bettman will have nightmares in his sleep just thinking about it. He will be on antidepressants.
For whatever reason, Dallas just does not move the needle much in the US, in spite of being in the 4th largest metro area in America. One would think the 2014 LA-NYR final would have broken YV ratings for hockey, but it failed to match the 2013 Final (Chicago vs Boston) or the 2015 Chicago vs Tampa Bay Final, so it is not always the size of the market that drives the ratings.
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