The numbers are in from Sunday's New York Rangers/Chicago Blackhawks' game on ABC and they're even worse than the Winter Classic.

According to Hockey Report HQ's Braylon Breeze, just 454,000 viewers tuned in for Sunday's 6-2 Rangers' road win over the Blackhawks on ABC. An Original 6 matchup opposite Bears/Packers on FOX and the ratings were about half of the audience that watched the Blues 6-2 win over the Hawks at Wrigley in the Winter Classic on New Year's Eve. Just 920,000 viewers watched that game on TNT.

Speaking of TNT, when the Hawks host the Colorado Avalanche Wednesday night, New York Islanders' TV voice Brendan Burke, the Hawks' own Darren Pang & rising NHL Network star Jackie Redmond will have the national call starting @ 6:30P (CT) from the United Center.