Manoir

Amazing ratings for game 7-even more impressive when you consider one team was Canadian. http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/game-7-of-2011-stanley-cup-finals-ties-best-game-7-overnight-ratings-on-record/ The Boston Bruins 4-0 win drew a 5.7 overnight rating and 10 share, which ties the overnight ratings earned by a SCF Game 7 since the 2003 Stanley Cup finals between the Anaheim (Mighty?) Ducks and the New Jersey Devils. That also represents a 14 percent increase from the most recent Game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals, which took place between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings in 2009. BOSTON SETS RECORDS: The Boston market earned a 43.4 rating and a 64 share, the best overnight on record for a hockey game in Boston (dating back to 1991) and the best overnight in the Boston market featuring a Boston team in any major sports championship since Super Bowl XLII (Patriots-Giants, 55.6 on 2/3/08). Boston’s seven-game average for the Stanley Cup Final (five games on NBC, two games on VERSUS) was a 28.1/44, 12 percent higher than ABC’s seven-game Boston average for last year’s NBA Finals (25.0/40 for Boston-LA Lakers).

I think the people in Vancouver are rioting because their CFL football team won their preseason game.

Boston needs one of those hypnosis guys to make the team believe that game 7 is in Boston.

LA and STL haven't won since '68 when they both entered the league.

I think you mean 93.7% of the time.

Luongo may not have meant to take a jab at Thomas, but H.Sedin sure took one at Milbury. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Playoffs/Vancouver/2011/06/11/18270161.html "By all means, stay on Thelma and Louise, I mean Henrik and Daniel," said Milbury, referring to the characters in the movie of the same name starring Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis. Henrik Sedin heard about it from his son. "That wasn’t too much fun," he said following last night’s 1-0 Canucks victory over the Bruins in Game 5. "My son told me a man was making fun of me and Uncle Danny on TV. I said that can't be true because that's what usually happens in kindergarten. That's what happened. Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. "I think he has to be happy with his career," Henrik added. "He did a great job on Long Island. I'm sure he is happy with that." Zing.

Game 2 local ratings-Nashville 3rd. Although, I wonder how much MLB plays a role in other cities getting lower ratings.Still, Nashville continues to impress. http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/how-game-2-of-the-stanley-cup-final-did-in-nhl-and-non-nhl-markets/ NHL Markets Local Ratings for Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final 1. Boston - 21.2/38 2. Buffalo - 6.6/12 3. Nashville - 3.0/5 4. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose - 2.8/7 5. Detroit - 2.7/5 t6. St. Louis - 2.5/5 t6. Pittsburgh - 2.5/5 8. Minneapolis/St. Paul - 2.4/6 t9. Denver - 2.2/5 t9. Columbus - 2.2/4 11. New York - 2.1/4 12. Philadelphia - 2.0/4 t13. Washington - 1.8/4 t13. Tampa Bay - 1.8/4 15. Raleigh-Durham - 1.7/3 t16. Chicago - 1.6/3 t16. Phoenix - 1.6/3 18. Los Angeles - 1.4/3 19. Dallas - 1.2/2 20. Atlanta - 0.6/1 21. Miami - 0.8/1 Non-NHL Markets Local Ratings for Game 2 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final 1. Providence - 11.1/19 2. Hartford - 3.8/7 3. Seattle - 3.2/8 4. Orlando - 2.8/5 5. West Palm Beach - 2.7/4 6. Fort Myers - 2.6/5 7. Norfolk - 2.6/4 8. Greensboro - 2.5/3 9. Las Vegas - 2.3/4 10. Oklahoma City - 2.1/4 11. Dayton - 2.0/4 12. Albuquerque/Santa Fe - 1.9/3 t13. Portland - 1.7/4 t13. Baltimore - 1.7/4 t13. San Diego - 1.7/4 t13. Knoxville - 1.7/3 t17. Richmond - 1.6/3 t17. Sacramento - 1.6/3 t17. Cincinnati - 1.6/3 t20. Charlotte - 1.5/3 t20. Indianapolis - 1.5/3 t22. Cleveland - 1.4/3 t22. Memphis - 1.4/3 t24. Greenville - 1.4/2 t24. Tulsa - 1.4/2 26. Jacksonville - 1.3/2 t27. Milwaukee - 1.1/2 t27. Louisville – 1.1/2 29. New Orleans - 1.0/2 30. Kansas City - 0.9/2 t31. San Antonio - 0.7/1 t31. Birmingham - 0.7/1 33. Austin - 0.7/2 34. Houston - 0.5/1 35. Salt Lake City* - 0.4/1

Never been done before, eh. I say Warner Bros. buys the Coyotes and they will be called the Roadrunners at home and remain the Coyotes on the road.

The 1st number is the percentage of households that have a TV who are watching a particular program, so a 1.5 means 1.5% of tv households are watching the game. The 2nd number is the percentage of people who have the TV on(watching something) and are watching the game, so a 2 means 2% of households that are actually watching something are watching the game.

I think Seattle gets the Canadian CBC feed so it may have split the audience.

My source, i.e. my gut instinct, tells me he may wind up in Columbus as that team finally gets someone to play with Nash.

To all the young punks who think my NHLPA'93 on the Sega Genesis is outdated-you guys look really foolish now as your new games have the Thrashers while mine has a Winnipeg team.

Part 2 of the Bettman plan: Move the Coyotes to Atlanta and the new Winnipeg team back to Phoenix.

They changed it a couple of years ago-Cup winner picks 30th, finalist 29th, semi-finalists 27&28th. That's why in 2009 the Penguins picked 30th and the Wings 29th, despite the Wings better reg. season record.

Boston screws Toronto again-the 1st rounder for Kaberle will now be either the 29th or 30th pick.

Well,if you're going to talk about success then the Penguins have had as much success as the Wings recently, but you rarely hear people mention Shero as the best GM due to the fact that they have Crosby/Malkin and the perception is that it's much easier building a team when you have those 2-yet Holland has comparable pieces to build around with Datsyuk/Zetterberg and in fact has an extra advantage with Lidstrom. I'm not saying that I think Holland is a tad overrated because the Wings didn't win a cup the past 2 years. I'm saying that the big moves he did make like Hossa and Rafalski you can question whether they paid off-has Rafalski been worth 6 mil the past 2 years,did Hossa perform as well as people thought he would? When you have a good core you're ultimately judged by what you add around it and the only player I would argue that has been a home run addition(post-lockout) has been Cleary. There have been plenty of misfires such as Hudler, Modano,Williams and one can argue he held on to players like Maltby, Draper, etc for too long. Again, he's a very good GM. However, I don't think he's quite the genius some make him out to be.

That's fair, and as I said the GM does deserve credit for draft picks. What I meant was that as opposed to trades or free agent signings, the influence the GM has on draft picks is less. For example, if you go back to the 90's when the Wings traded for Shanny, Vernon, Murphy, Maltby,etc you can say without hesitation that those are moves where all the credit goes to the Devellano/Bowman tandem.I personally don't think Holland's tenure compares to that period from '94-98 where the Wings clearly won blockbuster trades and found bargains. Should Lidstrom retire, I think then we will really see the ability of Holland as this will be the first big challenge he's had in the post-cap world.

You could argue that Rafalski at 6 mil the past 2 years has not been worth it, but they did win the Cup after the signing so yes you could say it's a good move. I'll argue the Hossa signing turned out to be a bad move due to his playoff performance but don't want to open that debate again. Hasek, Hull, Robitaille were good signings but I was talking more about post-lockout where there is more of an even playing field. I'm not saying he's a bad GM, far from it. I do think he's a bit overrated and that the scouting dept is the real strength of the organization.

Umm, $2.8 mil for 37 regular season points and being a healthy scratch in the playoffs is a mistake. The Wings do have a lot of skilled fwds, but how many was Holland directly involved in acquiring or drafting. Cleary and Bertuzzi are the only ones I can think of. He was the GM when Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Franzen, Filpula were drafted so he gets some credit for that, but usually it's the scouting dept. that gets more credit than the GM for draft picks.

You can say Holland walked into a good situation too. When he became GM the team was loaded and there was no cap. In the post-cap era it was draft picks like Datsyuk,Zetterberg,Franzen, etc who emerged and became better players than anyone thought. He's the GM so some credit goes to Holland for the draft picks, but it's the scouting dept. that deserves credit more than anything. Most of his recent trades did not work out(Calder,Leino) and he's made some bad signings(Williams, Hudler, Modano). It's much easier to work around a good core and he has that with Zetterberg, Datsyuk, and Lidstrom.

The Sharks scouting dept. deserves a lot of credit. Pavelski and Clowe were late round picks while quite a few teams passed on Setoguchi and Couture in the 1st round.

Just as the octopus in the depths of the Indian ocean off the coast of Indonesia cowers in fear whenever it sees the mighty shark, so too will the Wings be unable to muster up the courage to play an effective game against the juggernaut San Jose franchise.

Sharks are not chokers, they come up with yet another clutch win in game 7.

That Pittsburgh crowd was so quiet, I know they get monster TV ratings but their crowd is very underwhelming.

He's right, the Canucks are diving so much you'd think they would have more powerplays.