As the finals tick down with two potential games remaining, the quest of The Edmonton Oilers to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada after a 32-season drought is drawing a little over three million viewers in English Canada. Saturday’s Game 5 hometown loss by Edmonton to The Florida Panthers drew an overnight, estimated total
Rogers Sports & Media unveiled their Upfront 2025 sizzle reel Tuesday and it flew by in 45 briskly-paced minutes. It went by so fast, in fact, it was easy to miss that one of their tent pole Canadian shows of the past four seasons was missing. Confirmed later by a Citytv spokesperson: Canada’s Got Talent
Sometimes reruns can still draw big numbers. Take, for example, the Toronto Maple Leafs. They have lost a record-tying seven Game 7’s in a row and haven’t made it past the Second Round of the Stanley Cup playoffs since 2002. Their last Stanley Cup win came in 1967, 58 years ago. Even though many had
The Winnipeg Jets come-from-behind overtime victory over the St. Louis Blues Sunday night drew a combined 2.2 mllion overnight, estimated broadcast and specialty viewers. The NHL’s regular-season leaders scored with 1.6 seconds left in regulation to tie the game and send it to overtime. The four-hour-plus, double overtime game was watched by an average minute
Uh oh. After going up three games to none, The Toronto Maple Leafs lost their second in a row and were shut out Tuesday in the fifth game of their round one playoff with the Ottawa Senators. Which means … one of these Canadian teams will be eliminated. That fifth game drew an overnight, estimated
Tuesday’s semi final 4 Nations Face-off game between Canada and Finland drew an overnight, estimated audience of 2,202,000 on Sportsnet National. Canada won that game in a bit of a nail-biter at the end by a score of 5-3 to advance to tonight’s final against the United States. This audience for this game will easily
Ratings for the second game of this spring’s Stanley Cup playoffs declined by more than half a million viewers from Game One. The overnight estimates from Monday, June 10, show that 1,594,000 viewers across Canada watched the Florida Panthers defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 on Sportsnet national. Another 1,O61,000 saw the game that same night
A home team rooting interest makes a difference. Saturday’s Game One of the Stanley Cup finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers drew close to 3.5 million viewers in overnight estimates across English Canada. Most viewers watched the game, which Florida won 3-0, on Sportsnet (national and .com), where 1,928,000 viewers were tallied.