Fights and Anthem Boos have even led hockey fans relaxed to be inflated by the game championship on Thursday 4 nations.
The USA and Team Canada team started it in Boston Thursday for the tournament final in its inaugural year, five days after the two long -standing competitors had three fights in the first nine seconds of their first game Last week.
The fights, which came following a crowd of Montreal, hiding loudly “The Star-Spangled Banner”, had non-hockey fans locked up, and that has been transformed into, literally, the biggest game hockey of all time.
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Team USA and Team Canada players shake hands after the 4 nations championship match at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday. (Chase Agnello-Dean / 4nfo / World Hockey Cup via Getty Images)
ESPN reported that 9.3 million fans were attentive to the final on Thursday evening, the largest Nielsen rating audience recorded in the history of the NHL, which dates back to 1994. This figure is more than double the match Last Saturday, which attracted 4.4 million people.
The previous record for Nielsen Ratings was the 8.9 million people who supported match 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup final between the Blues of St. Louis and the Boston Bruins, who, like Thursday’s match , took place at the Boston TD Garden.
Sports Business Journal reported that 12.41 million people watched match 7 of the 1971 Cup final between Montreal Canadians and Chicago Blackhawks.
Team Canada players are celebrating after a goal from Nathan Mackinnon during the first period of the 4 nations championship match at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday. (AP photo / Charles Krupa)
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The 4 Face-Off nations championship has been the most hockey match watched since the 2010 Olympic gold medal match between Canada and the United States (more than 27 million), but unfortunately for the Americans on Thursday evening had died.
This gold medal match ended with a goal by Sidney Crosby in overtime for Canada, while Connor McDavid found the bottom of the net on Thursday to give the title to Team Canada.
With the victory, Canada increased to 14-4-1 against the United States in the best format, with victories including the aforementioned 2010 competition, the 2002 Olympic gold medal match and the Olympic semi-final from 2014.
The Americans won the vicious competition on Saturday, but they still haven’t won consecutive games against Canadians since 1996.
Canada goalkeeper Jordan Binnington returns to the Jake Sanderson’s Wicning Wake of Team USA during the 4 nations championship match at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday. (AP photo / Charles Krupa)
However, the tournament, many of which was afraid would not be a lot of buzz, energized sport and was an exciting success.
