While I tend to limit those hockey videos that don't involve the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Winter Classic is becoming one of those things that a professional sports league gets right from time to time. The premise is pretty simple, one game a year is selected off of the schedule, usually around the first of the year, and unlike most games, where the sport is played indoors in various arenas throughout the United States and Canada, this game is played on an outdoor rink, amidst the elements. The game is both a tribute to many of the players, who got their start playing hockey outdoors on frozen lakes and ponds, and a spectacle that is unique unto the hockey season. You may remember I posted last years game, between the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins, a 2-1 Pittsburgh win in a shootout while snows was falling on Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo. The elements were kinder this year, and the venue was Chicago's Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, but the scene was still pretty cool and with better weather the scoring was up just a tad, Detroit won 6-4.
And what may be nothing more than a statistical anomaly, Ty Conklin, the goaltender for Detroit, has now started all three Winter Classic Games, as he was the goaltender for Edmonton in the first ever game between Edmonton and Calgary, he was in net for Pittsburgh last year and year three he was in goal for Detroit.
With that little piece of useless trivia out of the way, watch some outdoor hockey, it's good for you.
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