The 2011 Stanley Cup Final, won by the Boston Bruins over the Vancouver Canucks in a dramatic seven-game series, set numerous viewership milestones and records, including the highest North American viewership for any Stanley Cup Final in history – 11.5 million viewers (records go back to 1994). Game7 of the series led the way, averaging a record 18.3 million viewers in the U.S. and Canada, also a North American viewership record for any NHL game on record. That's good news for EA Sports, which now has the sole rights to NHL video games. But 2K Sports did get a lot of mileage out of its last NHL cover athlete, Ryan Kesler, who speaks about the game in the video below.