USA men's hockey's Olympics win over Canada draws monster NBC viewership
New York Post • • sports
Key Points:
- The 2026 Winter Olympics set new viewership records, highlighted by the U.S.-Canada men's hockey gold medal game, which attracted 20.7 million viewers across NBC platforms and peaked at 26 million during the game-winning goal.
- This men's hockey game became the most-watched pre-9 a.m. ET sporting event in U.S. history and NBC Sports' second-most viewed hockey game ever, just behind the 2010 Vancouver Olympics men's final.
- Overall, the Milan Cortina Games averaged 23.5 million U.S. viewers on a recent day, marking a 96% increase from the 2022 Beijing Olympics and the highest Winter Games viewership since 2014.
- The U.S. team's strong
