its on OLN. it would have gotten better ratings on a real station. the Stanley Cup has been won since the 1880's. in the Northeast-its THE sport. I got friends in many different areas up there-it is to them what college basketball is to NC, Indiana, Kentucky. hell, hockey has gotten popular in the basketball crazed Triangle.

Laettners Legacy Wrote:its on OLN. it would have gotten better ratings on a real station. the Stanley Cup has been won since the 1880's. in the Northeast-its THE sport. I got friends in many different areas up there-it is to them what college basketball is to NC, Indiana, Kentucky. hell, hockey has gotten popular in the basketball crazed Triangle.

yeah having it OLNfor hte Stanley cup finals ..even if it is the first 2 games is a ratings FUBAR for the NHL. I'll be happy when game 3+ are on NBC.

PirateTreasureNC Wrote:

Laettners Legacy Wrote:its on OLN. it would have gotten better ratings on a real station. the Stanley Cup has been won since the 1880's. in the Northeast-its THE sport. I got friends in many different areas up there-it is to them what college basketball is to NC, Indiana, Kentucky. hell, hockey has gotten popular in the basketball crazed Triangle.

yeah having it OLNfor hte Stanley cup finals ..even if it is the first 2 games is a ratings FUBAR for the NHL. I'll be happy when game 3+ are on NBC.

we'll see what they get on NBC.

Laettners Legacy Wrote:its on OLN. it would have gotten better ratings on a real station. the Stanley Cup has been won since the 1880's. in the Northeast-its THE sport. I got friends in many different areas up there-it is to them what college basketball is to NC, Indiana, Kentucky. hell, hockey has gotten popular in the basketball crazed Triangle.

define northeast. in NY it is certainly not THE sport.

flyingswoosh Wrote:Major sport? consider this: the 1st game of the stanley cup finals got lower ratings than the arizona/northwestern women's softball championship!! as if that wasn't enough, the hockey game got an estimated 611,000 viewers. You call that a major sport?

That's mindblowing.

GDawgs88 Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:Major sport? consider this: the 1st game of the stanley cup finals got lower ratings than the arizona/northwestern women's softball championship!! as if that wasn't enough, the hockey game got an estimated 611,000 viewers. You call that a major sport?

That's mindblowing.

before the lockout, hockey (which was not on OLN at the time) was getting lower ratings than pro bowling.

The Tour de France is going to blow the NHL away in ratings. I wish the Tour was a few weeks earlier to see how they would go head-to-head.

mdv483 Wrote:The Tour de France is going to blow the NHL away in ratings. I wish the Tour was a few weeks earlier to see how they would go head-to-head.

are you talking about US ratings only? i mean, i'm sure the tour will beat the NHL in the US, but it won't blow it away. where it will do that is in the world ratings.

flyingswoosh Wrote:define northeast.

um, up and right on a map. you should really learn your geography

Laettners Legacy Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:define northeast.

um, up and right on a map. you should really learn your geography

thanks, a**. what i meant is that the most well known state in the northeast is not a hockey state. So i wanted to know what he was talking about. calm down buddy.

hopefully Canes go up 2 games tonight!

flyingswoosh Wrote:So i wanted to know what he was talking about.

the "he" is me. I was talking about PA and Mass. according to my friends in Minn, its that big to-dont know if that is the Northeast, but its close enough.

The NFL is more popular than the NHL in the northeast (by and large). So is MLB.

Laettners Legacy Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:So i wanted to know what he was talking about.

the "he" is me. I was talking about PA and Mass. according to my friends in Minn, its that big to-dont know if that is the Northeast, but its close enough.

oh, my bad. your new picture is throwing me off. i still haven't gotten used to not seeing that old picture.

Let's GO CANES!!!!! TAKE GAME 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canes up 3-0 in second game with about a minute left in the 2nd period! Bring the Cup south, boys!

Interesting side note: They were discussing about the discussions to move the Oilers that took place in the 90s, and they said one of the places discussed, was... Raleigh. Interesting turn of events.

dont you just love Redneck Hockey? we have cheerleaders!

flyingswoosh Wrote:

Laettners Legacy Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:So i wanted to know what he was talking about.

the "he" is me. I was talking about PA and Mass. according to my friends in Minn, its that big to-dont know if that is the Northeast, but its close enough.

oh, my bad. your new picture is throwing me off. i still haven't gotten used to not seeing that old picture.

see, thats why I put my name in the sig-just for you!!

It's ridiculous that I can't even watch the Stanley Cup finals on my basic cable package here at school.

Why the **** isn't hockey on a normal channel? Instead I get the spelling bee or the 500th re run of Worlds Strongest Man.

Someone really screwed up handling the NHL tv package.

4-0 Canes!!