Predictable. The absence of NHL players did not help the Olympic ice hockey tournament. In the United States, the audience for the competition never took off on the group's channels NBCUniversal. The victory of the American team over Slovakia, for example, attracted barely a third of the number of viewers who had followed the American success against Russia four years earlier at the Sochi Games. Same effect in the women's tournament, where the best players were present. The final between the United States and Canada brought together 2,9 million Americans in front of their television. The same meeting at the Sochi Games recorded 4,9 million.
— Published February 26, 2018
