Vegas Golden Knights halfway Brett Howden, 2nd from left, celebrates with teammates aft scoring against the Carolina Hurricanes during the 2nd play successful Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid astatine T-Mobile Arena Tuesday, June 9, 2026, successful Las Vegas. Photo by: Steve Marcus
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 9:42 p.m.
The NHL said Tuesday the Stanley Cup Playoffs this outpouring were the most-watched connected grounds successful the U.S. with an mean of 1.8 cardinal viewers.
That surpassed the erstwhile grounds of 1.56 cardinal successful 1996 and is up 68% implicit past year.
ESPN reported this was the most-watched Cup last since 2019. Carolina bushed Vegas in six games in a final without immoderate of the biggest hockey markets successful the country.
Some of the summation crossed sports ratings tin beryllium attributed to a alteration successful however Nielsen is counting viewers, but hockey is besides enjoying a popularity spike, particularly among women, aft the 4 Nations Face-Off and the Olympics and successful airy of shows similar “Heated Rivalry” and "Off Campus” putting it successful beforehand of a antithetic audience.
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