Michigan Stadium will get its Jan. 1 Winter Classic between the Wings and Leafs.
In the 2012 Winter Classic, the Rangers beat the Flyers 3-2 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
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The Rangers defeated the Flyers all six games last season, including a win in the Winter Classic.
Think of it this way: now that the Winter Classic has been going strong since 2008, the novelty is pretty much over anyway.
The National Hockey League is expanding its outdoor-game concept beyond the annual Winter Classic, and the Bronx will be one of its prime sites.
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The first Winter Classic was four years away from taking place.
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Blackhawks in an outdoor exhibition match known as the Winter Classic.
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But focusing on one date over another dismisses the real success of the latest Winter Classic, which owes a great deal to how it was marketed.
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Under the new agreement, all postseason games televised by NBC and Versus (which will be re-branded NBC Sports Network at the Winter Classic) will be aired nationally.
League-wide revenues are up five straight years since the 2005 work stoppage, and the annual outdoor Winter Classic has caught on as a big attraction on the sports calendar.
The NHL debuted the Winter Classic in 2008 in at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo to a crowd of 71, 217, which still stands as the biggest crowd in NHL history.
The critical decision for the NHL ahead of the coming Winter Classic game would seem to be whether to go up against the NFL and its telecasts that have taken the top 20 spots of all television programming during the past year.
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Perhaps that's because it's an obvious one for winter, but it's also classic functional: big, indulgent, opulent knits in neutral colors.
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