McKenna's family cam catches gasps as tempers flare
The NHL's short broadcast clip turns from a scuffle behind the net to sharply different reactions in the seats.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 460,629 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (24,227).
Different Reactions in the McKenna Household
Gavin McKenna and Pettersson grab each other along the boards, Roslovic skates over, and then the broadcast finds another angle: the family watching it all unfold.
The cut to McKenna's family comes just seconds into "Different Reactions in the McKenna Household." Shock, gasps and amusement share the same suite. Nobody needs a postgame interview to establish that they have rather different responses to the action below.
"Family's here in town," a commentator notes as the camera switches away from the ice. That little broadcast detour is the point of the NHL's upload, which has passed 300,000 views in 11 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts.
The replies concentrate more on McKenna standing up for himself than on the family cam. Elsewhere on the channel, another heated exchange gets a lighter response: Carolina's Juuso Välimäki answers Winnipeg's Tyrel Bauer with the classic scoreboard gesture. That Short is also drawing an unusually fast audience, without needing a goal to provide its punchline.
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What viewers say
Way to see McKenna get at it
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Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- NHL
- Subscribers
- 3,070,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 30,001,109
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,082,732 (on a normal day: 3,659,333)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 303,053 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 460,629
The numbers
McKenna's family-reaction clip has already comfortably exceeded the NHL's usual full first day for Shorts.
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