 "The NHL on NBC" got only an 0.7 rating on April 8, 2006, or 803,000 households.When NBC went head-to-head with "The NBA on ABC" on May 7, 2006, ABC got a 4.3 (500.8 million households) rating whereas NBC got a 0.9 (693,000 households) rating.The first round of ratings for the 2006 playoffs on NBC were down between 13% and 19% from two years earlier on ABC, and the regular season ratings were more dismal still.