Despite being played by two U.S. teams, the final game of this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs drew a respectable audience of Canadian viewers.

On Tuesday, the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in game five of the finals to win the team’s first Stanley Cup. According to overnight Numeris figures, the game had an AMA of 1.2 million on Sportsnet, plus 884,000 viewers on CBC’s simulcast.

By comparison, game three of the first round series between Vegas and the Winnipeg Jets had an AMA of 1.3 million on Sportsnet. Game seven in the first round of the series between the Panthers and Boston Bruins – which decided the team the Toronto Maple Leafs would face in the second round – had an average audience of 2.5 million. The final game of the Edmonton Oilers-Los Angeles Kings series had an AMA of 2.4 million.

The high watermark for ratings during this year’s playoffs came during game six of the series between Toronto and the Tampa Bay Lighting, in which an average audience of 4.4 million people watched the Maple Leafs advance to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 19 years.

In 2022, the final four games of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning drew an AMA of 1.27 million on Sportsnet and 799,000 on CBC.