But for some reason, the Hawks will have it again in two years vs a team that will inevitably pummel them on national television because the NHL’s marketing team is garbage.

Kraken fans widely regard our WC as the best game yet! I and others I’ve talked to loved every part of it from the game to the salmon tossing and those jerseys chefs kiss

You mean people don't want to sit a mile away from a hockey game and pretend it's fun anymore?

Maybe if they stopped featuring the fucking Blackhawks every other year they’d draw more interest.

Bettman special !

Man I miss the Vegas frozen fury’s. Remember when Simmonds got ejected for fighting with tape on his nucks. 

Also nothing could beat these vibes : https://youtu.be/aM17KbUldH4?si=Kcybohk4gVcpiB5T

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I never attended until many years after this video, but Frozen Fury was so much fun in Vegas. RIP.

My guess is Florida. Down here we’ve seen lots of articles saying the Panthers are hosting at LoanDepot park (Miami Marlins home) next year.

Something like Central Park or the National Mall would be SUPER interesting

Sell a bunch of businesses seats and they won’t have to worry about actual attendance and they’ll still get their money.

You’re all wrong. It’s actually going to be at the ODR by my parents place in Medicine Hat that Jim down the way has flooded every winter for the last 36 years.

Gary told me himself.

Is the Heritage Classic game strictly played between Canadian teams? If not then I could see the NHL having an interest in doing an outdoor game between the Kraken and Canucks in Vancouver. If it’s just Canadian teams though then give me Oilers/Flames, and bonus points if they do it in a neutral location in Alberta. Maybe Red Deer?

Habs have been in two Heritage classics in Alberta, one Winter classic in Boston and the Centenial Classic in Ottawa.

It would be cool if they hosted one.

https://theathletic.com/news/blues-wild-winter-classic-in-minneapolis-set-for-jan-1-all-star-game-to-vegas/2AQ1F5xYJg5z

>A source said the Carolina Hurricanes, whose 2021 Stadium Series game in Raleigh, N.C., was postponed in December, deferred their outdoor game to the 2022-23 season

Just keep saving!! It'll happen eventually :)

Even better stat is that from 2004-2020, the Capitals won more games at Heinz Field than the Cleveland Browns

>Big shame that they got skipped out like that. Perhaps they weren’t able to secure the NC State stadium again?

It's only used for about 7 games a year, plus a handful of football practices. The only way that would be the issue is if the NHL wanted the game to be played in early fall, but logistically I don't know how they would make the potential of 95°F or more work.

This would have been a good season to do the Parliament Hill game since they couldn’t have spectators.

Hear me out.

1. We beat Tampa and as a result win a cup and get custody of the Rays.

2. We build a beautiful 35-40K baseball stadium right on the St Lawrence in less than 6 months.

3. Host the heritage, commemorating our Stanley Cup victory and furthering of our already great legacy.

4. it was 3-1

>https://theathletic.com/news/blues-wild-winter-classic-in-minneapolis-set-for-jan-1-all-star-game-to-vegas/2AQ1F5xYJg5z
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>A source said the Carolina Hurricanes, whose 2021 Stadium Series game in Raleigh, N.C., was postponed in December, deferred their outdoor game to the 2022-23 season.

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The Canes deferred to next year, from the sounds of it, voluntarily.

Alternate universe headline:

Winter Classic hits new low against College Football Playoffs

Once you understand that hockey on American television will not be allowed to win, you'll live much easier.

Was stupid to play it on NYE and not 1/1, I didn’t even realize the game was happening then until after the fact

How Gary Bettman’s brain works: 

Step 1: It doesn’t.

Rather than doing the same teams over and over again, what about making it a rematch of the previous season’s SCF?

This is 'classic' NHL. They actually made something that was some sort of a tradition for people and then go and change it without thinking of their fans.

I put on the Flyers game at night (EST) and found out I missed it. I then had to call my friend to tell him because he always comes over on New Years day and watches the WC to tell him it already happened. He too had no idea.

WC 2025, Dallas gets its 2nd appearance and they play Minnesota. 

Ultimate grudge match.

Plus we both get cool new sweaters out of the deal.

I want the Panthers to feel pain. So Florida at Winnipeg in late January early February for a Stadium Series game. It's sure to be -40

You all think it’s a big joke? Blackhawks losing in every winter classic they’ve appeared in. Well let me tell you, I have grown to love the pain. I harness it. I turn on the tv to watch my favorite team “play,” and I bathe in their suck. It flows through me: Our top line makes the worst play you’ve ever seen, all while broadcast Nationally - my heartbeat quickens, my pupils dilate. Yes Jones, bearer of dreams, turn over the puck for the 10th time this period while getting paid the same amount as Kucherov, Brayden Point, Mark Stone and Vasilevskiy; I’m erect. Another winter classic? Tickets are in the thousands? I go to see it in person, cold, wet, feverish from the chanting Blues fans counting off their sixth goal. My doctors tell me I should stop, maybe find another team that isn’t so heartbreakingly terrible, maybe root for someone safe like The Rangers or Ottawa, real contenders. But I can’t escape it. I grasp my Patrick Kane body pillow, now emblazoned with a Detroit Red Wings jersey - No, I won’t stop the pain, I can’t stop it. I am one with it. I cry into my official dynasty blanket.

Best one I ever watched was Toronto at Detroit like a decade ago. Only one I’ve ever watched mind you…

Canada is a myth. It doesn't exist. Like unicorns, tooth fairies, medical evidence of concussions...

Keep the Winter Classic, get rid of the All Star Game.

This. Cut the crap with these stadium series and do one winter classic a year. I like the winter classic, it’s a nice tradition now. Can’t keep up with all of the stadium series and it’s clearly damaging the viewership of “the big one”

Would straight up clear my schedule to watch a winter classic weekend.

This year it was difficult to find. In the past it was on the main NBC channel, so you might get a casual viewer flipping thru.

This year I started at ABC (since, you know, Disney owns them and ESPN and this would be roughly equivalent to previous years). Nope, probably a bowl game. ESPN? Bowl game. ESPN2? "Classic Bowl Game". WTF? Finally went online to search for it. Keep in mind, I'm a big hockey fan that is LOOKING for it. Where is it? TNT. Of course????

Do they still do the road to the winter classic series? That was the best part

Love the idea of winter classic weekend

That sounds like a dream of a weekend watching hockey. Might only get to see one game though because black out dates be real.

You mean the Boston/Chicago/Pittsburgh Classic?

Great timing! I was just talking to someone about this amazing rivalry.

If anyone is interested in learning more, I suggest Adrian Dater's book Blood Feud: Detroit Red Wings v. Colorado Avalanche: The Inside Story of Pro Sports' Nastiest and Best Rivalry of Its Era.

I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out!

It's worth mentioning that the Fight Night at the Joe game actually went into overtime, so it didn't even end after 60 minutes. And guess who scored the game-winner in OT? That's right, Darren McCarty (who probably should have been ejected, but eh, who's counting?).

Also worth mentioning: the guy who clotheslined Patrick Roy at the beginning of brawl, Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan, went on to run the NHL's Department of Player Safety. You really can't make this stuff up.

>Scoring or even being good at hockey wasn’t much of a consideration

Neither was the ability to actually skate, in some cases. "Can you get up to near terminal velocity? Good enough, won't need to turn if you come at the guy fast enough"

If anyone wants an idea of the peak of the enforcer line up, take a loot at the 1969 Philadelphia Flyers. One of the players, a Dave Shultz, still holds the league record for most penalty minutes in a single season at 472. That is almost 8 hours of penalty time.

Fuck Claude Lemieux forever

this is about the time my dad stopped watching hockey.

He said the final straw was when he someone trying to stab someone else's eyes out with his finger.

Didn’t know it was on yesterday until today. The NHL makes it so hard to be a fan

The NHL is the worst run league in sports

I read that ESPN owns the broadcasting rights and they have a bunch of College Football games on January 1st

Too many bowl games to compete with

People are usually recovering on New Year’s Day and have work the following day. Makes sense to have an event New Year’s Eve.

But it should have been the only game on today imo. Also kind of bad timing with the big Canada vs US WJC game.