NHL to Play Outdoor Game at Wrigley Field, Star Tribune Reports

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  • bigboydan
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    • 08-10-05
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    NHL to Play Outdoor Game at Wrigley Field, Star Tribune Reports
    Now that would be an event even hockey haters would like to go to I'm sure.

    NHL to Play Outdoor Game at Wrigley Field, Star Tribune Reports

    By Erik Matuszewski

    July 7 (Bloomberg) -- The National Hockey League will play its second outdoor game at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Jan. 1, when the Blackhawks host the Stanley Cup-champion Detroit Red Wings, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

    The game was approved last week when NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman met with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and officials from the Blackhawks and Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, the paper said, without citing the source of its information.

    Wrigley Field got the bid over New York's Yankee Stadium, which is closing this year, the Star Tribune said.

    In the NHL's first outdoor Winter Classic earlier this year, the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres in a shootout on New Year's Day in front of a league-record crowd of 71,217 at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, New York.
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