TSN: 58% of Canadians are not watching/paying attention to the Stanley Cup Finals.

[Killer Orcas]

I tuned in for the first 2 but if Edmonton isn't even gonna put up a fight not sure how much more i can watch. Hoping for a g7 OT here

You might be getting your wish after all.

 

[mkatcherin00]

You also have to remember that alot of fans are not watching out of stress/fear bc they don't want to see Edmonton winning a cup
This is a real thing lol.

They just scoreboard watch

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

You might be getting your wish after all.

Yessir , praise McJesus

You also have to remember that alot of fans are not watching out of stress/fear bc they don't want to see Edmonton winning a cup
This is a real thing lol.

They just scoreboard watch

I don't wanna see edmonton win but there's no way i was missing the McDavid show

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

Demographic shift in Canada. Soon there will be more cricket players in the country than hockey players.

You also have to remember that alot of fans are not watching out of stress/fear bc they don't want to see Edmonton winning a cup
This is a real thing lol.

They just scoreboard watch

Or maybe they don't care after their own teams were eliminated.

 

[stealth1]

A casual fan does not give a shit about hockey in June. Season needs to end sooner.

Somehow the NBA ends at the same time and casual fans tune into that.

 

[Jozay]

Somehow the NBA ends at the same time and casual fans tune into that.

Hmm, I wonder why.

 

[stealth1]

Hmm, I wonder why.

They market their stars and people want to see them. The NHL has tried to do that with McDavid and hockey fans turn on the guy.

My point remains NBA finishes the same time as the NHL, yet nobody has an issue with that.

 

[bucks_oil]

Bah, the Canucks C is more toilet seaty, if it wasn't for that whale.

… but is it really a whale at all, or…. ?

 

[KJoe88]

Canadians are just salty

 

[izlez]

Was any context to these numbers provided in these 12 pages?

How does 42% compare to previous years?

Did 42% of Americans pay attention to the NBA finals?

Do 42% of Britons pay attention to the World Cup?

I don't know the answers to any of these, but I'm not sure they do. 42% seems really high to me.

...but the way a headline is worded gives people some weird new reason to dislike foreigners, so lets run with it

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

I'm sure more are tuning in now.

This final might be good news for exposure to new fans in the states. Best player in the game doing great things and it doesn't really compete with anything. No basketball, as the final is done. No football as it doesn't start for another month (?) And there's just baseball where the games are just regular season games.

If this goes 7 could be record viewership for fans in the states and possibly Canada.

I'm sure the NHL would have preferred the Rangers, or Bruins, but it's still should be a great finals for the NHL in terms of revenue and viewership.

 

[snag]

Yessir , praise McJesus


I don't wanna see edmonton win but there's no way i was missing the McDavid show

that assist last night....

 

[WillTheThrill]

Interested to see the viewership numbers for Game 6, wont be surprised if they break records!

 

[Soundwave]

42% of a country is pretty freaking high.

The NFL is hands down the most popular sports league in North America and obviously in the US it's no.1, way above the NBA or MLB let alone the NHL.

The Superbowl is still only watched by about 35% of the US population.

The NBA Finals peak ratings for the Celtics-Mavs series was just over 13 million people, so 3% of the US population was watching.

 

[PenguinSuitedUp]

This entire thread is just a classic clusterf*** of people misunderstanding and misrepresenting simple data. Par for the course.

 

[Cams]

And here we have a 2 day break between game 4 and 5, again for 5 and 6, and if game 7....another 2 days between 6 and 7.

Terrible scheduling

 

[Oilslick941611]

The problem is while it's June and nice out I don't buy these excuses. Somehow the NBA runs at the same time and people tune into the NBA finals.

IMO the issue is many hockey fans in Canada only car about their team.

I don't see this as a problem.

 

[OilerTitanFan]

You also have to remember that alot of fans are not watching out of stress/fear bc they don't want to see Edmonton winning a cup
This is a real thing lol.

They just scoreboard watch

Canucks fans biggest fear, another team wins a cup while they remain cupless.

Do they actually want Florida to win?

 

[Coffey]

I don't wanna see edmonton win

Yea well I wanted you guys to win....

 

[BCNate]

but 42 % are? That is incredibly high.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Most people are busy with other stuff in June. It's the start of summer and travel season. The cup should have been awarded 2 weeks ago.

 

[Pucklington]

Cant speak for all of Canada but here in Van, almost everyone i know through the hockey community ( beer league, coaching, friends etc) are not watching the games at all. They might tune in to Sportcentre at the end of the night to see the score and highlights but thats about it. Summer weather is here with plenty of things to do and its hard to convince people to watch a game that their team is not playing in.

Tbf. There are not that many hockey fans in Vancouver.

 

[SensontheRush]

Or in other words, almost half of all Canadians are paying at least moderate attention?

But yeh, frame it as a pejorative, that makes sense.

 

[Laveuglette]

The % is gonna increase every year with the massive immigration in Canada. It's no secret that most of them don't care about hockey at all. And there are a LOT of them arriving every year. Most ppl don't realize what Canada is doing to its demographics.

 

[Melrose Munch]

And here we have a 2 day break between game 4 and 5, again for 5 and 6, and if game 7....another 2 days between 6 and 7.

Terrible scheduling

Especially with both the NBA and NFL over.