Erik Johnson joins ESPN’s Stanley Cup Final coverage
Johnson will work the studio desk and conduct interviews alongside ESPN's on-site coverage team in Las Vegas.
Archives
Sean McDonough reveals he felt ‘inadequate’ during early days as ESPN’s lead NHL voice
"I better get better at this in a hurry."
Stanley Cup Final Game 1 draws biggest audience since 2019
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals averaged 4.8 million viewers up 98% from Game 1 in 2025.
NHL viewership maintains post-Olympic glow through conference finals
Viewership for the conference finals increased by nearly 50% year-over-year.
Stanley Cup Final viewership finishes on low note for TNT
Excluding the COVID-impacted Stanley Cup Finals of 2020 and 2021, it was the least-watched Cup Final since 2007.
Stanley Cup Final Game 5 is least-watched since 1994
Saturday's game was the least-watched Stanley Cup Final Game 5 since 1994.
In Finals ratings, star power not market size trumps all else
A new Awful Announcing analysis reveals that, contrary to popular belief, market size isn’t always a reliable predictor of viewership
Stephen A. Smith celebrates ‘three Black dudes’ doing that hockey: ‘Only in America’
"I don't know a damn thing about hockey other than the fact that the puck is black."
Stanley Cup Final Game 1 up 12% from last year but down 26% from previous ABC broadcast
This was the second most-watched Game 1 involving a Canadian team in the last 30 years.
NHL Network’s Tony Luftman previews 2024 Stanley Cup Final: ‘It’s such a battle of attrition’
NHL offering historic Stanley Cup Finals sign-language broadcast
"Doing a deaf-centric broadcast of a premier sporting event in ASL is a positive, seismic change for the deaf community."
2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final Game 1 down from last year, up from previous cable Game 1 broadcasts
The NHL Stanley Cup Final is off to a good start....for cable.
Miami TV reporter stiff-arms Vegas fan out of live shot at Stanley Cup Final
Don't mess with Samantha Rivera!
Your 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final broadcast primer and announcing schedule
2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final Florida Panthers vs Vegas Golden Knights NHL on TNT Game Schedule Game 1:...
Start times for the NBA Finals are harder to defend now after watching the Stanley Cup Final
Your Stanley Cup Final announcing schedule
The Stanley Cup Final will start on Monday, June 28.
Clubhouse’s first championship collaboration is with the NHL around the Stanley Cup Final, giving fans Media Day access
“We hope this is just the first of many opportunities to leverage Clubhouse’s platform to offer exclusive, live audio experiences to hockey fans year-round.”
Blues-Bruins Stanley Cup Final Game 7 draws highest NHL overnight rating in at least 25 years
If you want to find a higher overnight for an NHL game, you need to roll all the way back to the 1970s.
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final posts a flat overnight rating for NBC compared to 2018
Game 1 of the Bruins-Blues series was essentially flat from last year, even with the Memorial Day holiday.
NHL will stream their Stanley Cup Live pregame show on Twitter as well as Facebook
In an effort to reach younger audiences, the NHL will expand the Stanley Cup Live pregame show to Twitter after it launched last year on Facebook.
Stanley Cup Final Game 1 draws impressive rating despite going up against NBA Game 7
The NHL's strong postseason ratings continued Monday with Stanley Cup Game 1.
2017 Stanley Cup Final finishes up significantly from last year
NBC sees good numbers for the 2017 Stanley Cup Final
Fan yells at Mike Milbury to “get the f*** out of Nashville” on live TV
Milbury may want to leave Nashville promptly.
Predators coach Peter Laviolette slips F-bomb by NBC during locker room speech
"Game 1 is up for grabs. It's up to us to fuckin' take it."
2016 Stanley Cup Final down significantly from 2015
Without Chicago or another big market team in the Stanley Cup Final, the Pittsburgh Penguins-San Jose Sharks series...
