In that stretch, league officials canceled the All-Star Game, the annual outdoor Winter Class game and hundreds of regular season games.
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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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Winter is predicting a game full of passion and believes the outcome will be tighter than many predict.
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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This hot indie game is coming to Xbox this winter, an exclusive, using Kinect.
This is the best for any regular-season game on any network, excluding Winter Classics, in over 10 years.
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"In my opinion this is the greatest game of club football in the world, " Winter told BBC Sport.
Of course, if Apple had ordered more than it needed last quarter to make sure that it was ahead of the game, it would need fewer still going into winter and might only require 30-35 million.
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Suddenly Shakhtar, who had not played a competitive game since 16 December because of the Ukraine league's winter break, started to look tired and Gera had a header saved by Pyatov before Zamora nodded wide unmarked from eight yards.
They were clearly up for baseball after a tough winter, at least among the true loyalists that were lined up two hours before game time waiting for the gates to open.
He has already been on one tour with England this winter, having been part of the Champions Trophy squad, but he did not play a single game in India.
For much of last year gamemakers' growth stalled as they waited for this winter's platform changes--particularly Sony's new PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii game consoles.
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