Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
game meant absolutely nothing and the Olympic hockey tourney will be replayed just about every night for the rest of the NHL season.


The only Olympic sports I watch anymore is the NON pro sport ones.
Trust me it meant a lot, to a LOT of people..

Canada's overtime win over the United States for the Olympic gold medal in men's hockey was watched in its entirety by about half of Canada's population. In the U.S., it drew the largest TV audience for any hockey game since the 1980 Winter Games.

NBC drew an average audience of 27.6 million viewers for Canada's 3-2 win, the largest audience for a hockey game since the 1980 United States-Finland gold-medal game from Lake Placid averaged 32.8 million. At least 52.9 million U.S. viewers watched a portion of Sunday's game, according to the Nielsen Co.

In Canada, the game drew an average audience of 16.6 million on a collection of networks around the country, including CTV. About 26.5 million, representing about 80 percent of the nation's population, watched at least some of the game.