Sunday afternoon’s gold medal hockey matchup between USA and Canada scored an average 27.6 million viewers—the most-watched hockey broadcast of any kind since USA and Finland going for the gold in Lake Placid on Feb. 24, 1980 (32.8 million).
Comparably, this beat the 2002 Salt Lake Gold Medal Game (17.1 million) by a massive 10.5 million viewers (or 61 percent). And it outdelivered the majority of key events over the past year, including the 2010 Grammy Awards (25.9
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