Attendance was a concern for much of the world junior tournament - but not on couches in Canadian homes Thursday night.

TSN announced that 11 million Canadians tuned in for the extraordinary gold-medal final between the United States and Canada - more than 30 percent of the country's population.

The title game, won by the United States in a shootout, was the most-watched English-language hockey broadcast on any network since the world junior final between Canada and Russia in 2015.

There were 7.2 million Canadians watching when U.S. forward Troy Terry scored the only goal in the shootout.

Bell estimates that 40 percent of Canadians watching television were tuned in to TSN or RDS.

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