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Penguins Season Opener Sets Ratings Record

The Biggest Penguins Opening Night Audience in Network History also Ranks in the Top 5 of All Regular-Season Game Telecasts

Monday, 10.05.2009 / 5:25 PM / News
Friday night’s telecast of the Pittsburgh Penguins season opening 2009-10 game versus the New York Rangers registered a 10.5 average HH rating on FSN Pittsburgh, according to Nielsen Media Research.  The telecast, viewed by more than 120,500 households in the Pittsburgh DMA, set a new record rating as the highest ever for a Penguins season opening game telecast on the

“Friday night defied ordinary on FSN,” said Ted Black, Senior VP/General Manager, FSN Pittsburgh.  “Our ability to showcase the Stanley Cup banner raising ceremony and Coach Bylsma’s team pregame talk was a truly unique opportunity for fans and they proved that by the record number who tuned in for the opening season game on FSN Pittsburgh.”

The previous high mark of 7.1 for a Penguins season opening game rating was set at the start of the 2005-06 season, Sidney Crosby’s first as a Penguin.

FSN Pittsburgh led all FSN regional sports networks in NHL game ratings the past two seasons.

Watch the Banner Raising Ceremony from the home opener on PensTV!

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EASTERN CONFERENCE
  TEAM GP W L OT GF GA PTS
1 WSH 59 41 12 6 234 161 88
2 NJD 58 36 20 2 153 134 74
3 BUF 58 32 18 8 160 146 72
4 PIT 59 35 22 2 187 171 72
5 OTT 60 34 22 4 167 167 72
6 TBL 58 26 21 11 150 167 63
7 MTL 60 28 26 6 154 162 62
8 PHI 57 29 25 3 167 154 61
9 BOS 58 25 22 11 140 148 61
10 NYR 59 26 26 7 152 163 59
11 ATL 57 25 24 8 172 183 58
12 FLA 59 24 26 9 153 171 57
13 NYI 59 24 27 8 149 183 56
14 CAR 59 22 30 7 159 189 51
15 TOR 60 19 30 11 162 204 49
COMPLETE STANDINGS

STATS

2009-2010 REGULAR SEASON
SKATERS: GP G A +/- Pts
S. Crosby 58 39 35 7 74
E. Malkin 52 20 41 -1 61
J. Staal 59 16 22 15 38
B. Guerin 58 17 19 -1 36
S. Gonchar 43 8 26 -3 34
A. Goligoski 47 6 20 5 26
P. Dupuis 58 13 12 5 25
M. Cooke 57 11 12 12 23
R. Fedotenko 57 8 14 -13 22
K. Letang 50 3 18 3 21
 
GOALIES: W L OT Sv% GAA
M. Fleury 28 16 2 .906 2.68
B. Johnson 7 5 0 .912 2.72
FULL TEAM STATS
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