Most combined viewers in a Cup Final through 3 games, Salary Cap era:
15.97m — Chicago vs Tampa | 2015
14.49m — Vegas vs Carolina | 2026
14.31m — Chicago vs Boston | 2013
14.07m — LA vs New York | 2014
13.91m — Chicago vs Philadelphia | 2010
Golden age of hockey is back.
Forever, I’ve said the loudest sports arena I’ve ever been in was the old Chicago Stadium. After these first 2 #StanleyCup games in Raleigh, I might have to rethink that. My ears still hurt!
🚀 Mind-blowing fact:
The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer that landed humans on the Moon had ~4 KB RAM, ran at ~0.043 MHz, and drew ~55 watts.
Your iPhone? Over 100,000 times faster — with some estimates reaching 120 million times the computing power at a fraction of the size.
In other words, the phone in your pocket could handle millions of moon landings simultaneously while using a fraction of the energy.
The Apollo Program cost $25.8 billion over roughly a 10 year period (about $300 billion in todays dollars)
We spend around $25B a year in improper payments in entitlement programs just for some context.
$25 billion represents about 0.355% of annual government spending.
Peanuts.
So why haven’t we been back?
James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺