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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (AP) -- NHL television ratings have bounced back from the post-lockout doldrums -- and way beyond.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The clincher of the Stanley Cup finals was the most-watched and highest-rated NHL game in 36 years. The Chicago Blackhawks' 4-3 overtime win over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6, which earned them their first championship since 1961, drew a 4.7 rating and 8 share Wednesday night on NBC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's the best since a 7.6/27 for Game 6 of the Boston-Philadelphia series in 1974. It was 38 percent higher than the 3.4/6 for last year's Pittsburgh-Detroit Game 6 and 9 percent higher than the 4.3/8 for Game 7 in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The network said Thursday that the game was watched by 8.28 million viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The series' average rating was a 3.4/6, the best on network TV since Carolina-Detroit in 2002 and up 10 percent from last year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"This has been a special year for hockey beginning with the Winter Classic continuing through the Olympics and ending with this incredibly exciting Stanley Cup final,\" NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer said in a release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program. Shares represent the percentage of all homes with TVs in use at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Game 6 drew a 32.8 rating and 50 share in Chicago, which means that half of all homes with televisions in use were tuned into the game.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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