Pittsburgh Penguins at Tampa Bay Lightning
Nielsen average audience: 983,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2021-10-12 Tuesday
- Networks
- ESPN
- Away
- Lightning
- Home
- Penguins
983,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2021-10-13
Published figures
JSONNielsen1 figure
983,000
Tuesday's Penguins-Lightning NHL Opening Night game averaged 983,000 viewers on ESPN, the league's largest Opening Night audience ever on cable (dates back to 1993).Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
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