Kraken hosting GoldenKnights for 2024 Winter Classic

[LadyStanley]

Cool

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[RayMartyniukTotems]

I wonder what the ticket prices will be like for the Winter Classic. Love to go but won't spend a gazillion for tickets to freeze my ass off

 

[Gabe Kupari]

I wonder what the ticket prices will be like for the Winter Classic. Love to go but won't spend a gazillion for tickets to freeze my ass off

Football is played outdoors in January so how cold could it be really

 

[PCSPounder]

I wonder what the ticket prices will be like for the Winter Classic. Love to go but won't spend a gazillion for tickets to freeze my ass off

It will be a gazillion. The odds of frozenness are slim, though. They’ll probably have the roof on, because the bet for rain is smarter than for below freezing. (Roof covers, but does not enclose, so a marine flow might feel like it’ll freeze your patoots.)

But this got my wife interested. Shrug.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

patoots.

 

[BMacLeafs]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

It really should be Columbus going there since they are a fellow Snow Belt team and the Winter Classic is meant for Snow Belt teams.

Columbus can still avoid being the last Snow Belt team yet to play outdoors entering the 2024-25 season by being the road team in the Stadium Series game.

I'm fine with them being the road team in an outdoor game. The NHL missed a huge opportunity with this year's Stadium Series game; had Columbus been chosen to be the visitors, it would have matched a team from a city where college football is king (Columbus) against one where college basketball is king (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill). The Battle of the College Sports would have been an interesting story line ratings-wise.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

My suggestion is Columbus VS. Detroit at Michigan Stadium which already hosted the 2014 Winter Classic.

This would reflect the rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State most prominently seen in football.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

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For real, talk about scraping the bottom of the shit-barrel.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

Do people who blame Bettman for everything ever use their brains before blaming Bettman?

 

[hangman005]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

I remember staying up as a kid, keeping track of the Vegas/Seattle's games of old by the smoke signals from the next town over.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I remember staying up as a kid, keeping track of the Vegas/Seattle's games of old by the smoke signals from the next town over.

Lucky you!! I remember getting their old boxscores washing up on the beach in messenger bottles a few times a year.

 

[Yukon Joe]

I dunno - I think a Vegas / Seattle outdoor game sounds kind of cool.

These matches pretty much by definition are supposed to be kind of gimmicky. I can tell you I went to one outdoor game (Oilers @ Jets Heritage classic) and it was a lot of fun, though not the kind of event I need to go to many times.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

In Seattle's case, they are legitimately part of the sport's history. They won the Stanley Cup before the NHL even existed.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

Wow...two classic teams really paying homage to the sport's history. Good job, Battman!

Seattle has as much hockey history as the vast majority of the Original Six, but keep banging the Bettman is evil drum.

 

[Frank the Tank]

The alumni game may rival the teams iced by the Oilers and Habs at the 2003 Heritage Classic.

 

[patnyrnyg]

NHL Fans: Why do they keep having the same 8 or so teams in these special events? Maybe if they knew anything about marketing they could feature some other teams and that will help grow the game in those areas. Because, ya know, if the people of <insert small market city whose team that could use an injection to tix sales/revenues> could see their local team play ONE game outdoors, they might fall in love with the sport and team and rush to order season tickets and buy merchandise. I for one will not be watching the game this year as I am tired of seeing the same teams every year.

NHL: Two new (literally) teams in next years Winter Classic.

NHL Fans: Man, the league just doesn't know what they are doing. It should be <insert other small market team> vs <insert team>.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Hey, Sidney Crosby and Patrice Bergeron only had so many years left...

 

[Anisimovs AK]

My suggestion is Columbus VS. Detroit at Michigan Stadium which already hosted the 2014 Winter Classic.

This would reflect the rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State most prominently seen in football.

Or you could put it in Ohio Stadium, so as not to make the facility redundant

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For real, talk about scraping the bottom of the shit-barrel.

The two newest teams who are also among the best in the Western Conference.


Yeah, it should have been Pittsburgh, Philly, or Boston for the 75th time. That would be way more interesting

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Or you could put it in Ohio Stadium, so as not to make the facility redundant

OSU won't make the necessary upgrades to allow an NHL game to be played there, so that's why I'm fine with the Blue Jackets playing as the road team in an outdoor game.

 

[Jets4Life]

Football is played outdoors in January so how cold could it be really

They ahve played ooutdoor hockey games in Las Vegas in the fall, and that was 30 years ago. I'm sure that Seattle will make it work, considering it will be 5-10 C, and not 30 C.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[LadyStanley]

Sneak peak of new logos for VGK and Kraken.

 

[Ernie]

I get spreading around the stadium games, but can you really say that a game played in a huge stadium with its roof up while it pours outside is a "Winter Classic"?

The game in Vancouver was ridiculous.

 

[BattleBorn]

First American Stanley Cup Winning City vs Most Recent American Stanley Cup winning city is a fun storyline that I'm sure will get woven into the lore now.