Unexpected Ratings Surge for 4Nations Game on ESPN

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00:00Nation's face off sort of you know, it's it's the dust is still settling

00:05right now and

00:07The ratings are in and I gotta tell you

00:11Like there if as a betting man, if I would have bet on this I would have lost

00:16Like I would have lost like I thought that when they got like basically 5 million people on Saturday night

00:22That that would be tough to top

00:24Right a lot of people like all imagine what the ratings are gonna be on Thursday for the championship game now

00:30And I was thinking well you played on a Saturday night before

00:33It was on ABC as well. It was on network television, which helped the ratings

00:40So I said they got like 4.8 4.9 million viewers on average for the Saturday night game last week last night

00:47last night

00:499 9 million viewers

00:53Like over 9 million people were watching on ESPN last night

00:5916 million people in North America

01:029.3 in the US

01:04That's pretty crazy 9.3 million in the US and the other seven in Canada

01:11Total viewership makes it the second most NHL game in more than a decade