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hockey: the best game on earth. Discuss the NHL, PWHL, IIHF, and all other hockey you can think of! We are the premier subreddit to talk everything hockey! Founded 2008 · 3.1M members

3.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 74.9K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.1Mmembers
74.9Kbest post
17.1Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

23% 23% 20% 18% 10%
Image 23% Link 23% Text 20% Video 18% Question 10% Gallery 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

[Video] 136 [News] 62 /r/all 57 [Image News] 36 [News - X] 35 [PGT] 33 [GDT] 29 [Paywall] 26 🗯️ Chat live! 23 [hockey flaired users only] 8

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite

↑ 74.9K 💬 2.9K link 2026

[Justin Trudeau] You can’t take our country-and you can’t take our game.

↑ 74K 💬 4.3K image 2025

Rest In Peace Kobe, from the hockey community. 🙏🏻

↑ 64.1K 💬 1.1K image 2020

'Mighty Ducks' star Shaun Weiss is over 230 days sober!

↑ 63.5K 💬 1.1K image 2020

[CAN (3)-2 USA] Connor McDavid scores the championship winning goal in the Four Nations Tournament

↑ 52.7K 💬 5.5K video 2025

'Please, no more war': Alex Ovechkin responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

↑ 45.3K 💬 1.7K link 2022

Ovechkin scores his 895th NHL goal, passes Wayne Gretzky for most goals in NHL history

↑ 44.3K 💬 2.3K video 2025

[Robinson] The PA announcer asked everyone to respect the anthems. It went quiet for a moment and some dude yelled "Fuck that!" and the rink proceede…

↑ 43.2K 💬 2.5K image 2025

The Boston Bruins have been eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs after losing to the Florida Panthers in 7 games

↑ 42.8K 💬 5K text 2023

The St.Louis Blues have Clinched their first Stanley Cup in franchise history defeating the Boston Bruins 4-1 in game 7

↑ 40.2K 💬 5.1K text 2019

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/hockey, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/hockey?
r/hockey ("hockey: the best game on earth") describes itself this way: Discuss the NHL, PWHL, IIHF, and all other hockey you can think of! We are the premier subreddit to talk everything hockey. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.1M members.
How many members does r/hockey have?
r/hockey has about 3.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 74.9K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/hockey?
"US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite" reached 74.9K upvotes and 2.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/hockey.
What subreddits are similar to r/hockey?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats.
What kind of posts do best on r/hockey?
Of the posts we hold, 23% are image posts and 23% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/hockey?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (23K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (21.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (19.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/hockey?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/hockey has 34.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/hockey, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.