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Originally Posted by Scary Eloranta
Because 99% of hockey fans don't care about it and NHL clubs hate it if they have a star player injured in it.
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Define "care". Even most NHL fans don't actually care enough to watch after their team is out. Typical current TV audiences for the Stanley cup final series is something like 3-6M per game. The highest rated Stanley Cup final game ever had 12M viewers. (Montreal-Chicago game seven, 1971).
The 2017 IIHF World Championships had an average audience of 19M per game. A Germany-Ukraine group phase game probably "absolutely crushes" your average Stanley Cup TV audience.