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The 2025 NHL Winter Classic was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series. The game was played on December 31, 2024, with the Chicago Blackhawks hosting the St. Louis Blues at Wrigley Field in Chicago . [ 2 ]
The 2025 Winter Classic took place on New Year's Eve in an attempt to avoid competing with the newly-expanded College Football Playoff bowl games. However, viewership dipped to under 1 million for the first time in the game's history. [26] As a result, for the 2026 Winter Classic, the NHL moved the game to January 2.
The league followed it up in 2008 when it inaugurated the NHL Winter Classic as an annual event to be held on New Year's Day. The 2008 NHL Winter Classic, held in Buffalo, set an NHL attendance record of 71,217. [8] The 2014 NHL Winter Classic, held at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, set a new NHL attendance record of 105,491. [9]
The 2026 NHL Winter Classic is an upcoming outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series. The game is scheduled to be played on January 2, 2026, with the Florida Panthers hosting the New York Rangers at LoanDepot Park in Miami .
The 2008 NHL Winter Classic was the first game to use "hard whistle" stoppages during the third period and overtime, and to have the teams defend the same goal during the shootout. [34] The 2011 NHL Winter Classic was delayed from its original 1:00 p.m. start time to 8:00 p.m. due to warm temperatures and rain in the forecast. [35]
On June 21, 2011, The New York Times reported the Rangers and the Flyers would be playing each other in the 2012 NHL Winter Classic on January 2, 2012, at Citizens Bank Park, the home stadium of the Philadelphia Phillies. [43] [44] The NHL formally announced the event on September 26. [45] The Rangers won the Winter Classic 3–2. [46]
The Stadium Series is one of the series of regular season outdoor games played in the National Hockey League (NHL). This event is distinct from the NHL's other two series of outdoor games, the NHL Winter Classic, played in a different NHL city every year, and the NHL Heritage Classic (played occasionally at different Canadian stadiums).
The 2024–25 NHL season is the ongoing 108th season of operation (107th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season started on October 4, 2024, when the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils played the first of two games in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of the 2024 NHL Global Series. [1]