The Four Nations Face-Off delivered another strong audience Monday night as nearly two million watched a game that had nothing at stake.
Monday’s Sweden-United States NHL Four Nations Face-Off game averaged 1.8 million viewers across TNT and truTV, marking the largest non-playoff NHL audience yet on the TNT Sports networks. The previous high was 1.78 million for the 2023 Penguins-Bruins Winter Classic. As Thursday’s final was already set by puck drop — United States-Canada — there was nothing on the line entering the game.
Sweden’s win delivered the second-largest NHL audience this season behind the United States’ win over Canada on ABC Saturday (4.44M).
The Four Nations Face-Off accounts for the top four, with the United States’ win over Finland on ESPN last Thursday ranking third (1.55M) and Saturday’s Finland-Sweden matinee on ABC placing fourth (1.30M).
The top audience outside of the Four Nations Face-Off is 1.27 million for a Golden Knights-Bruins game on ABC earlier this month.
Earlier Monday, a Canada-Finland matinee averaged 699,000 on TNT and truTV — the least-watched of the Four Nations games, but the fourth-largest NHL audience on the TNT networks this season behind Sweden-United States, Canada-Finland last Wednesday (1.05M) and the Blues-Blackhawks Winter Classic (920K).
TNT Sports averaged 1.2 million viewers for its three Four Nations games, on par with the network’s average for playoff games last season.
