remember that the rural part of china is irrelevant, if you look at the population clusters over china, almost everyone lives in the (po?) basin near the coast, and its not that far to travel

800k every day is more than whole europe combined multiplied by like 40 lol

The number watching NHL isn't but the number watching the Olympic games is massive.

what are canada numbers like for daily games?

i'd guess 5 million?

doubt its that high

you think a winnipeg can pull 5 million viewers on a wednesday?



5 million is probably what MTL or leafs(first half of the season) pulled on a Saturday night

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/shoalts-broadcast-piece/article21973606/

big games seem like about a million

e/ winter classic was only just over a million apparently

This post was edited by Nearin on Mar 19 2015 01:49pm

yeah, if canadian teams play, which are just 6, so i think local markets accumultae a lot more in US area etc

800k is still enough to make it viable if you ask me, 800k is a lot, since its most likely die hard fans IF that number reported is correct

120 million watched the gold medal game too.. that is unreal!

almost quadruple canada's population haha



i mean in total

all canadian teams added up

This post was edited by BB_MelloYello on Mar 19 2015 01:48pm

yeah, but remember that stats are easy to lie about, so im not sold on 120mil, not for the gold medal game. i got a friend who lives in china, i'll see if i can get in touch with him and ask him if theres any hype around hockey over there

NYR @ MTL, DET @ PHL, CHI @ STL, NJD @ OTT, BOS @ TOR

altogether was 2.2 mill that was a saturday

3 canadian teams playing at home

and bracket busted

even a small %s of chinas population is huge becasue theres so many of them


dont they have an olympic hockey team? and they always make those weird ass hockey videos they have to somewhat like hockey