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How Do NHL Fans Watch Their Hockey?

12/21/2016 at 12:16pm EST

from Greg Wyshynski of PuckDaddy,

While the NHL has made great strides in getting its games on dozens of digital platforms, a significant majority of fans are still watching games primarily on cable TV, according to a Yahoo Sports/YouGov survey of hockey fans in the U.S.

When asked which option best represents the way they watch NHL games, 56 percent of hockey fans in the U.S. said that they watch “live on cable TV.”

That said, there are a significant amount of cord cutters: The next highest answer was “streaming through an Internet connected device connected to my TV” at 12 percent.

Nine percent of all fans said they most often watch games in-person as the arena.

Here’s a breakdown of the answers, including some demographic ones:

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