Vegas-Canes Final Would Be A TV Frown - But Maybe That’s Fine

A Stanley Cup Final between Vegas and Carolina would not exactly light up the Nielsen charts, and everybody in the business knows it. But ratings panic is one thing and hockey reality is another, especially when two deep, disciplined teams are still standing in late May. The league has lived this tension before, where the on-ice product and the TV story do not always match, and this matchup would test that old argument again.