The Beijing KHL team is averaging like 2000 fans a game. The Japanese didn't care more about hockey in 1998 than they did in 1997.
I think the NHL benefits when they get more Americans interested, and so that's why sending NHLers to Salt Lake City and Vancouver was valuable. Slightly less valuable when the games come on at 2am on the east coast.
That time variation with Asia is just brutal, even worse than Sochi and I'll bet you anything American and probably Canadian olympic hockey ratings declined significantly in 2014 over 2010.
Last edited by DiracSpike; 04-04-2017 at 10:37 AM.
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