Eastern Conference First Round Game 7 - Canadiens vs Lightning
Nielsen average audience: 2,310,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2026-05-03 Sunday
2,310,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-05-06
Published figures
JSONNielsen1 figure
2,310,000
… particularly to years prior to 2020.) The opening round concluded with Sunday's Canadiens-Lightning Game 7, which averaged 2.31 million viewers on TNT Sports …Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
Prior-season comparable
1,600,000
2025-05-04 · TBS · HBO Max · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
+44.4% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, the only such window within a week of 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.
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