4 Nations Face-Off February 2025 NHL/NHLPA international event, four teams

[LadyStanley]

 

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[LadyStanley]

Teams have until June to announce first 6 players. (I'd guess for marketing purposes.)

 

[joelef]

With mlb owners being more open about the Olympics and the success of the wbc and the nfl wanting to send players to the Olympics for flag football has anything to do with the declining revelance of all star games?

 

[Reaser]

With mlb owners being more open about the Olympics and the success of the wbc and the nfl wanting to send players to the Olympics for flag football has anything to do with the declining revelance of all star games?

The Pro Bowl does bad numbers for the NFL's standards.

For the NBA, MLB and NHL, the viewership decline is compared to previous ASGs -which of course makes sense- to get to a conclusion of "no one cares about ASGs anymore." While leaving out the reason they still exist is because if you compare them to regular season (where all 3 take place as a break in the regular season) numbers they hold up.

NBA: The Lakers-Warriors game a couple weeks ago was the most-viewed non-Christmas regular season game in four years. Average viewership of 3.968M. The NBA ASG last year that had "horrible viewership" was 4.59M. That's better than the Lakers-Warriors did. So if "no one cares about the ASG" then you'd reach a false conclusion that no one cares about Lakers v. Warriors -- which obviously nearly 4M cared about.

NHL: The ASG this year did really good in Canada and is the 2nd most-viewed 'game' in the U.S. so far this season, only beaten by the opening night (Bedard debut) game. Even the NHL Skills is only beaten by 5 regular season broadcasts in viewership.

MLB: The ASG got 7M avg viewership last year. All negative "record low" responses to the number. But regular season games/windows on FOX/ESPN/etc. don't even get half that viewership, they don't even come close to half that viewership.

So "no one cares" is relative, in that sense.

No doubt their relevance has significantly decreased and signficantly less-popular than they were, but opening day/night through the end of regular season each of the three respective leagues most (or near most) popular/viewed game/event is their ASG.

 

[LadyStanley]

NHL break Dates: Feb 9-22, 2025

 

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