Sam Flood was rooting for a Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final from the start.
It just took Game 2, Game 3 and Game 4 for Golden Knights fans to join him.
Flood, the executive producer who oversees all aspects of sports production for NBC and NBC Sports Network, can’t get enough of the ratings the team is generating during its historic postseason run. “You think of any comparatives,” he said, “there are none.”
Even after the Knights’ first three-game losing streak of the playoffs, Monday’s Game 4 broadcast on NBC earned a 20.5 local rating, meaning of all the households in Las Vegas with televisions, 20.