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Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Fine then. HNIC is like Sunday Night Football. About 10% of Canadian population watches hockey on Saturday night. So that'd be equivalent to over 30M americans watching something. Number will be higher if you just factor in tv viewers percentage and not overall country population. Game will be watched, but seeing how NHL just signed a huge deal with Rogers,they'd at least have games slotted in the most watched timeslots for their networks.

Right, that was just a sidebar. America doesn't have any weekly event that even comes close to comparing to HNIC.

My point was that regardless of the day of the week, it's the playoffs. Viewership will be there and will be just fine.