The NHL Girl

The AP reports that the Monday game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final brought in the highest NHL ratings on VS. ever, and only Lance Armstrong’s ‘05 Tour De France final brought in more viewers.

This popularity is no surprise considering the epic match up between the Wings and the Penguins. The NHL couldn’t have paid for a better match up if they had wanted to. It’s the league’s bandwagon team pitted against their poster child (emphasis on child) and his gang.

In fact, Adrian Dater writes on his blog All Things Avs that the NHL in general is doing better than ever hitting a record revenue of $2.56 billion. This is good news for hockey fans.

Who knows, maybe we will even be lucky enough to reconcile with ESPN and get some real coverage of the sport. As great as vs. has been this year covering the NHL (OK so perhaps ‘great’ doesn’t really describe it) it would be nice to have hockey games on a channel that people actually get on their TVs.

It would be even better if the Penguins could pull out of their funk and make this series interesting — for Hockey’s sake.