Good news for our friends over at VERSUS Cable Television as the Detroit Red Wings' victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup finals opener was the highest-rated and most-watched cable telecast of the championship round in six years.
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The Red Wings' 4-0 win on Saturday night had a 1.8 national rating -- drawing over 2.3 million viewers. The rating was the highest for an NHL game on Versus, topping the audience that watched the Penguins' Game 2 victory over Philadelphia in this year's Eastern Conference finals.
Only Lance Armstrong's final ride in the 2005 Tour de France had a higher rating in Versus history (2.1).
Versus will show Game 2 of the finals on Monday night before the series shifts to NBC for the remaining games.
The Game 1 rating is a 157 percent increase over last year's opener and a 100 percent rise from two years ago.
Radley
I never knew that I had the VERSUS channel until the day before the game; so that cheered me up since I didn't have the regular NHL channel.
I hope game 2 goes better for the Pens; the Red Wings really took game 1 over (
), hopefully
the Pens will take hold of this game. 
It was still a great game to watch.
1That's great news for Hockey!!!
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