Cup Final fourth-most watched on record through four games
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Key Points:
- The Hurricanes-Golden Knights NHL Stanley Cup Final Game 4 on ABC drew a 2.6 rating and 5.345 million viewers, making it the most-watched Game 4 since 2017 and the fourth-most watched on record since 1994.
- The 2.6 rating for Game 4 is the highest since the 2019 Blues-Bruins game, though changes in Nielsen's viewing measurement methodology since 2020 affect direct historical comparisons.
- Carolina's Game 4 win peaked at 6.4 million viewers, ranking as the second most-watched NHL game since 2022, trailing only the 2024 Cup Final Game 7 between the Oilers and Panthers.
- The current series averages a 2.4 rating and 5.0 million viewers through four games, the highest for a Cup Final series at this stage since 2015, with all four games surpassing four million viewers each.
- This Cup Final is the first since 1997 where each of the first four games exceeded four million viewers, and it is poised to become only the second series on record to have every game average over four million viewers.