UPDATE, 1:45 PM: Sports fans love stats and the record slashing Game 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup certainly provided a net full of data for the St. Louis Blues, NBC, the NHL and everyone else. First of all, the final numbers are in and the first ever championship win for the Missouri team over the Boston Bruins last…

The sounds of ‘Gloria’ rang out in Boston tonight, as the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins to capture the franchise’s first National Hockey League Championship. Ryan O'Reilly scored for the fourth straight game and rookie Jordan Binnington stopped 32 shots in the game 7 final Wednesday night. The Blues capped…

UPDATE, 8:20 AM: The cast and creators of Hadestown and The Ferryman are probably still shining their new Tony Awards but CBS might just want to put Sunday's primetime telecast on the shelf after hitting an all-time low in the final numbers. Easily trounced by Game 6 of the 2019 Stanley Cup finals and slightly…

(UPDATED WITH FINAL NHL NUMBERS) The St. Louis Blues are only one game away from winning their first Stanley Cup but the real goal scorers are NBC and The NHL. Paralleling the viewership challenged though still dominate NBA Finals over on ABC, the fifth face-off this series between the 52-year old Missouri team and…

NBC's Memorial Day broadcast of the opening game of the Stanley Cup Final (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.15 million viewers) skated past its previous four years in overall crowd but slid slightly in the demo, early data indicate. Meanwhile, ABC's 8-10 PM The Bachelorette (1.1, 4.68M) gained in overall…

EXCLUSIVE: The tale of most amazing inaugural season for an expansion team in U.S. pro sports played out like a Hollywood movie, and now there’s a feature documentary about it. Sterling Productions, Osmosis Films and NHL Original Productions have teamed to produce Valiant, the story of the 2017-18 Vegas Golden Knights…

Wanna win a bar bet? Challenge that lug next to you to name the first American team to win the Stanley Cup. It’s not Boston, Detroit or Chicago but the Seattle Metropolitans in 1917. Now the NHL is coming back to the Pacific Northwest. The league’s board of governors voted unanimously today to award its 32nd franchise…

NHL star Bob Probert, one half of the “Bruise Brothers,” was widely considered one of the toughest and most violent ice hockey players of all time. His role as the hard-hitting enforcer of the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, as well as his hard-living ways and death at age 45, is the subject of a new…

EXCLUSIVE: The success of recent documentaries about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Fred Rogers proves that people are craving heroes right now. Enter Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first black player, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday. He is the subject of Willie, an upcoming feature-length docu whose…

As the world’s premium hockey league builds on its global ambitions, 24 international territories will be getting 50 live primetime NHL games this season. The puck drops Saturday on the NHL European Game of the Week. The weekly spotlight show kicks off with the first regular-season game in the 2018 NHL Global Series…

Whoever emerged as the victor in this year's Stanley Cup Final, we all knew it was going to be a franchise first for either the Vegas Golden Knights or the Washington Capitals and in the end, the veterans won. Taking Game 5 of the NHL battle with a 4-3 win over the Sin City newbies, the 44-year old Capitals took the…

A 6-2 blowout by the Washington Capitals over the Vegas Golden Knights in last night's Game 4 (1.5/7) of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals was a win for the DC NHL team and a win for NBC on a very unscripted night. The Comcast-owned net's 8-11 PM coverage of the ice action topped primetime among adults 18-49 up against the…