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Manoir

NHL local ratings for game 1-Nashiville tied for 7th

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Even better....Game 7 got the best ratings for an NHL game since 1974.

The reports of the league's demise are greatly exaggerated. So is the argument that nobody will watch a Final involving a Canadian team.

Best Ratings since 74

And yeah, I love that they point out that it outdrew the Celtics' last two NBA Finals. Enough of the NBA superiority attitude!

Total attendance:

NBA - 21,302,573

NHL - 20,928,036

Average attendance:

NBA - 17,319

NHL - 17,122

Percentage Full Average:

NBA - 90.52

NHL - 92.68

The NHL numbers would be larger, but the average NBA arena is larger than the average NHL arena and there were 6 teams that forfeited one home game due to playing one home game overseas, so the real ttl att for the NHL would be closer to 21.1mil.

And my God, the NYI and PHX Coyotes realllly brought down the numbers. Taking the two highest and lowest for each league gave us these numbers:

NBA:

Total Att........Avg Att...Percent Full

18,443,614 - 17,301 - 90.54

NHL:

Total Att........Avg Att...Percent Full

18,236,488 - 17,220 - 93.56

If I really wanted to skew the numbers, I'd only count the team that were at or above the averages, in which the NHL completely dominats the NBA in numbers due to the fact the NBA has 15 teams at or above the average for attendance while the NHL has 18.

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