Eastern Conference First Round Game 1 - Canadiens vs Lightning
Nielsen average audience: 1,400,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2026-04-19 Sunday
1,400,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-04-22
Published figures
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1,400,000
Over on TNT Sports, Sunday's Canadiens-Lightning Game 1 averaged 1.4 million in a window that overlapped with Bruins-Sabres on ESPN.Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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