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Penguins/Red Wings most-watched regular season game on Versus
by Tony on 11/13/08 at 01:44 PM ET
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From Versus:
NEW YORK, N.Y. (November 13, 2008)-VERSUS, the network that celebrates real competition and the exclusive cable television home of the National Hockey League (NHL), earned its most-watched regular-season game among households (364,645) for the Detroit Red Wings/Pittsburgh Penguins 2008 Stanley Cup Final rematch on November 11; beating the Red Wings/Toronto Maple Leafs 2008-09 U.S. regular-season opener on October 9.
The game garnered a .5 national HH rating, matching the best rating for a regular-season NHL game ever on the network. Locally, Pittsburgh received a 5.8 HH rating and Detroit delivered a 3.3 HH rating, making VERSUS the #1 rated cable network in both markets for the 7:00-9:45 p.m. ET period.
Through the first six weeks of the 2008-09 regular season (11 games) as compared to the same time period last year (12 games), the network has seen gains in HH impressions (up 7%), total viewership (up 14%), and increases across all key male demos: Men 18-34 (up 29%), Men 18-49 (up 35%) and Men 25-54 (up 21%).
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Agreed.
What makes this such a great story is that the Red Wings, when healthy, are a better team than the Penguins. So it should be talked about when the beat-up Pens come into the Wings home and heavily upset them. The loss was a combo of bad bounces and lack of effort.
I agree Detroit has awesome scouting, but so does Pittsburgh. (Goligoski, Letang, Kennedy…)
Detroit is going to be in bad shape in a couple years, they will surely be Hossa-less, but even more damaging, Lidstrom-less. He really is the foundation of the entire team.
And wait for it, wait for it….go pens!
Posted by DrW from Detroit on 11/13/08 at 03:34 PM ET
DrW, I would submit that the Pens got just as many bad bounces as the Wings did…. McCarty’s goal, blindly throwing a shot on goal (to his credit), came after the deflection went about 20 feet in the air…. Also, the Franzen goal on the PP, came after Orpik stopped the cross-ice pass in front of the net, but the puck was at his skates, giving time for Hudler to make the pass to Franzen…
Anyway, I’m personally holding off on any smack-talking…. That’s still one beast of a team up there….
Posted by Tony F from Virginia Beach, VA on 11/13/08 at 03:39 PM ET
Agreed….for now
Posted by DrW from Detroit on 11/13/08 at 05:49 PM ET
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So more households than ever before got to see Jordan Staal put his jock strap on Pavel Datsyuk’s head and assist on the game winner after doing the same to Lidstrom, Holmstrom and Osgood.
NICE!
Posted by Don Cherry from Detroit on 11/13/08 at 02:49 PM ET