For the second time this year, the Penguins and Flyers combined to give Versus its largest regular season NHL audience ever.
The Penguins’ Tuesday night win over the Flyers earned 750,000 viewers on Versus, the largest audience ever for a regular season NHL telecast on the network.
The previous record was set on Opening Night by another Flyers/Penguins game (730,000). Prior to the 2010-11 season, the record was 622,000 viewers for Penguins/Red Wings in March.
Tuesday’s game not only set a network record, it also marked the most-viewed NHL regular season telecast on cable in seven years.
Locally, the game drew an 11.2 rating in Pittsburgh and a 3.5 in Philadelphia, both up significantly from last year’s season averages in the markets.
(Versus)
