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

[Juxta Position]

The NHL needs to get its head out of its ass vis-a-vis the schedule. I'm sorry, but no intelligent / rational person prefers to watch NHL hockey after the summer solstice. In fact, nobody wants to watch it after May.

As someone noted elsewhere, the NBA started after the NHL season and ended before the NHL season. That is messed up, and totally unnecessary.

I guess the NHL has figured out there's a 0.01% chance of slightly higher profits from gambling ads by stretching the season out to July or something... I dunno, it's insane.

Why do people make statements like this as though it is fact?

I will watch hockey year round, in fact there is absolutely nothing better than setting up the TV outside at the lake, sitting by the fire with a couple drinky-poos watching a playoff game 20 yards away from the lake shore.

it's pretty egocentric of you to think that just because YOU don't want to watch hockey after May, everybody must not want to either.

 

[stealth1]

The NHL needs to get its head out of its ass vis-a-vis the schedule. I'm sorry, but no intelligent / rational person prefers to watch NHL hockey after the summer solstice. In fact, nobody wants to watch it after May.

As someone noted elsewhere, the NBA started after the NHL season and ended before the NHL season. That is messed up, and totally unnecessary.

I guess the NHL has figured out there's a 0.01% chance of slightly higher profits from gambling ads by stretching the season out to July or something... I dunno, it's insane.

I hate this argument about it being too nice outside now to watch hockey. How does the MLB survive if people don't watch sports in the summer if it's too nice outside

 

[BTO]

Why do people make statements like this as though it is fact?

I will watch hockey year round, in fact there is absolutely nothing better than setting up the TV outside at the lake, sitting by the fire with a couple drinky-poos watching a playoff game 20 yards away from the lake shore.

it's pretty egocentric of you to think that just because YOU don't want to watch hockey after May, everybody must not want to either.

Yet it's not egocentric of you at all to notify us all to the fact that you have a place on a lake!

 

[Juxta Position]

Yet it's not egocentric of you at all to notify us all to the fact that you have a place on a lake!

There's lots of lakes around where i live in Saskatchewan, it's not a flex by any means here.

 

[BTO]

There's lots of lakes around where i live in Saskatchewan, it's not a flex by any means here.

Fair enough.

 

[647Hockey]

The NHL needs to get its head out of its ass vis-a-vis the schedule. I'm sorry, but no intelligent / rational person prefers to watch NHL hockey after the summer solstice. In fact, nobody wants to watch it after May.

As someone noted elsewhere, the NBA started after the NHL season and ended before the NHL season. That is messed up, and totally unnecessary.

I guess the NHL has figured out there's a 0.01% chance of slightly higher profits from gambling ads by stretching the season out to July or something... I dunno, it's insane.

I agree.

If NBA can finish a season starting later and ending earlier with the same number of games and playoff format, NHL should end quicker as the hockey season starts earlier.

As for people saying summer doesn't matter and other sports do well during summer, well it makes sense. Soccer and baseball are outdoors sports where people sit in open sunny stadiums anyway. Only a small number of teams are domed up when weather is bad (like Jays on a rainy night).

I wouldnt be surprised if ad revenue plays a part of it. The longer the season goes, the more hockey pre game and post game shows there are where they can flood the air with more Bet365 ads and whichever betting site McDavid plugs. It's not even a local team game night and there's still radio shows or hockey TV shows every day. Canadians will watch this over TSN or Sportsnet filling their TV schedule with an extra month's worth of sailing, poker, or Top 50 MLB plays of the week shows.

 

[Voight]

Look how many people here are "not watching", while posting on a hockey board in June, and complaining about an Offside call in a game they "weren't watching".

I mean to be fair, you can catch the highlights on social media these days.

 

[Paulinbc]

is it over yet?
start in late September, cancel that bye week thing.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

15 million Canadians watched Game 7. That must be a new record. Heck even my friends grandma was watching and she couldn't care less about hockey.

 

[TheSecondSeason]

So much for "not many people are watching" argument. Game 7 was the most watched hockey game of all time that included a canadian team. Nearly 17 million in North America. Imagine if this was New York vs Edmonton. 25 million ? 30 ?. Literally nobody tuned in to watch the Panthers. We all know this was an Edmonton driven series.

 

[tabness]

So much for "not many people are watching" argument. Game 7 was the most watched hockey game of all time that included a canadian team. Nearly 17 million in North America. Imagine if this was New York vs Edmonton. 25 million ? 30 ?. Literally nobody tuned in to watch the Panthers. We all know this was an Edmonton driven series.

is this your stanley cope?

 

[FinlandPanther]

So much for "not many people are watching" argument. Game 7 was the most watched hockey game of all time that included a canadian team. Nearly 17 million in North America. Imagine if this was New York vs Edmonton. 25 million ? 30 ?. Literally nobody tuned in to watch the Panthers. We all know this was an Edmonton driven series.

Yeah they drove it right to second place.

 

[Dale Gribble]

It's not bad considering that Edmonton is not a market like Toronto, Montreal, or even Vancouver, but changing demographics in Canada are at play as well.

Years ago, while people may not have watched they would have at least known what was going on. The apathy for Hockey nowadays is growing, meanwhile interest in Basketball, Soccer, and Cricket is growing in this Country.

 

[WPGDEVILS]

I think people underestimate how many people stream the games for free

 

[njdevils1982]

I think people underestimate how many people stream the games for free

argh matay!

 

[madmike77]

I didn’t watch any of the playoffs this year. I may be Canadian but even I don’t want to watch hockey in June.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

42% ratings are monsterous.

 

[TheSecondSeason]

It's not bad considering that Edmonton is not a market like Toronto, Montreal, or even Vancouver, but changing demographics in Canada are at play as well.

Years ago, while people may not have watched they would have at least known what was going on. The apathy for Hockey nowadays is growing, meanwhile interest in Basketball, Soccer, and Cricket is growing in this Country.

Edmonton has a larger following than the Canucks outside its core cities. Its pretty evident. Montreal's and Toronto's base is also dwindling in the West due to extremely good teams in both Edmonton and Vancouver and the McDrai factor. Edmonton's always had a large following outside of Edmonton. Until the Habs or Leafs outdo 15 million for the finals, Edmonton is currently the new King.

 

[JJ68]

Edmonton has a larger following than the Canucks outside its core cities. Its pretty evident. Montreal's and Toronto's base is also dwindling in the West due to extremely good teams in both Edmonton and Vancouver and the McDrai factor. Edmonton's always had a large following outside of Edmonton. Until the Habs or Leafs outdo 15 million for the finals, Edmonton is currently the new King.

lol....man oh man...if the Habs or Leafs played in that final, firstly florida and their arena would have been half the fans of both teams respectively...just like when the leafs or Habs take over Edmonton. Oilers fans dont do the same out here.

The oilers are small potatoes in comparison. dont kid yourself.

 

[Soundwave]

42% ratings are monsterous.

42% of Americans don't even watch the Super Bowl, lol. 42% is a massive number.

The highest rated NBA Finals ever was the 1998 Finals with Michael Jordan's "last dance" that drew 29 million viewers against a US population of 276 million at the time, so a little more than 10% of Americans watched that.

15 million Canadians of a 39 million populace total watching a Stanley Cup Final game is proportionately like 3x higher than the highest NBA Finals game in the US.

 

[Kennedys]

That mean 42% are paying attention to it. That's crazy

 

[TheSecondSeason]

lol....man oh man...if the Habs or Leafs played in that final, firstly florida and their arena would have been half the fans of both teams respectively...just like when the leafs or Habs take over Edmonton. Oilers fans dont do the same out here.

The oilers are small potatoes in comparison. dont kid yourself.

The Leafs and Habs fanbase is dwindling in the West. Deal with it. They still fill out arenas here because season ticket holders make a killing reselling them. Your acting like Oiler fans dont travel well to Toronto, or in thousands to Florida during the cup finals. We all see it on TV. Toronto will always have the largest market due to population, no one is denying that, however no one is watching the Leafs in July. Just the marketing alone in the States, of being in the finals probably converted a lot of passive fans into McDavid/Oiler fans. Just logic.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

It's not bad considering that Edmonton is not a market like Toronto, Montreal, or even Vancouver, but changing demographics in Canada are at play as well.

Years ago, while people may not have watched they would have at least known what was going on. The apathy for Hockey nowadays is growing, meanwhile interest in Basketball, Soccer, and Cricket is growing in this Country.

Basketball is not popular in Canada, at least the NBA isn't