ESPN: Golden Knights-Avalanche highest rated Western final Game 1 on network

The archetypal crippled of the Golden Knights-Avalanche bid was the astir watched Western Conference Final Game 1 successful ESPN history, the web announced this weekend.

Last Wednesday’s crippled successful Denver averaged 2.1 cardinal viewers, a 45 percent summation implicit past year’s Western Conference Final Game 1 betwixt the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars.

ESPN said it besides was the highest rated Game 1 since 2018, erstwhile the enlargement Golden Knights played the Winnipeg Jets.

The network’s sum of the Stanley Cup playoffs is averaging 1.6 cardinal viewers per game, up 74 percent implicit past season.