No Canadian team in it: Kings-Avalanche highlights run ten times past Sportsnet's usual start
The ten-minute reel from Denver has viewers replaying Nathan MacKinnon's night, while Kyper and Bourne's Leafs show had a fast start of its own.
SPORTSNETStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 158,294 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (15,119).
NHL Highlights | Kings vs. Avalanche - September 30, 2026
Sportsnet posts game highlights almost every night of the hockey season, and most reels find something like 15,000 viewers on their first day. The Los Angeles Kings at the Colorado Avalanche found ten times that, just over 155,000 in twenty-three hours. For Canada's sports network, the game that drew the crowd had no Canadian team in it.
The comment section has been even busier, running about ten times a usual first day. Most of it is about one player. Viewers keep returning to Nathan MacKinnon, the Avalanche star and 2024 Hart Trophy winner, and the two goals and a fight they say he packed into one evening. Some pick out his combination with Martin Necas on Colorado's fourth goal. Others wish the edit had kept the hit on Cale Makar that, by their account, set off the fight.
The rest is the usual friendly grumbling from people who watch these reels every night. Some say the picture looks dim, some want the reel to run longer than ten minutes, and some miss the opening face-off of each period.
Toronto kept the channel busy too. Real Kyper & Bourne's October 1 show, in which Nick Kypreos, Justin Bourne and Sam McKee went over the Maple Leafs' first win of the season against the Islanders and Gavin McKenna's place in the lineup, opened at about six times a usual first day. Sportsnet's highlights from the October 1 games, posted later, were still near 5,000 views each.
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What viewers say
MacKinnon scoring twice and then winning a fight is about as dominant an opener as you’ll see. Colorado’s power play already looks much better too.
@MentalMulliganSee it on YouTubeThe Necas-MacKinnon combination for the 4:2 is just incredible. Perfect timing
@OvermeyangSee it on YouTubeI miss the opening face-off in each period as a highlight 😢
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- Channel views, pace per day
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- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
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- Video views, pace per day
- 158,294
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Both the views and the comments on the Kings-Avalanche reel came in about ten times faster than a usual first day for Sportsnet.
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