Watching Game 1 On HNIC

via CBC, Game One of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins was the highest-rated NHL game in the history of CBC?S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA with average audience of 5.6 million and a peak of 7.8 million.

It is the single highest audience for an NHL playoff and regular season game on CBC, shattering the previous record of 4.96 million set in 1994 with the Game 7 Stanley Cup final match-up between the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Rangers.

It was also the second most-watched sports program on CBC, behind only the 2002 Olympic Men?s Hockey Final between Canada and the USA in Salt Lake City which drew an audience of 8.96 million viewers.

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