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The 2024-25 NHL Winter Classic has a new date, but a familiar setting. For the first time, the league’s tentpole outdoor game will be held on New Year’s Eve (5 p.m. ET, TNT, Max, Sportsnet CHICAGO – About 50 percent of the work remains, but Wrigley Field is looking like an ice hockey venue more by the day in preparation for the Discover NHL Winter Classic on Tuesday (5 p.m. ET For the first time ever, the Winter Classic will fall on New Years Eve and not in early January, meaning the “2025 Winter Classic” will technically take place in late hours of 2024. The Blackhawks will host the Blues at legendary Wrigley Field in the 42 nd outdoor game in NHL history. Dec. 31: Cam Fowler’s 1,000 th game With only one CFP game scheduled for New Year's Eve, the NHL and TNT saw an opportunity to give the Winter Classic its own TV window in the early evening. Puck drop for Blackhawks-Blues is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET, two and a half hours before the Fiesta Bowl quarterfinal (Penn State-Boise State) kicks off on ESPN. The 2024 Discover Winter Classic will be held at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA! Get ready for an unforgettable outdoor game on New Years Day 2024, as your Kraken take on the Vegas Golden NHL Winter Classic: A New Year’s Tradition. For the 16th time, the NHL Winter Classic is set to take place at the end of December. This year, the event will include the Chicago Blackhawks-St. Louis Blues rivalry, with the teams battling outside at Wrigley Field, the home of MLB’s Chicago Cubs, on December 31, 2024. CHICAGO -- The 2025 Discover NHL Winter Classic between the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues on New Year’s Eve will mark the second time the NHL’s annual outdoor game is played at Wrigley It’s also the first year the Winter Classic organizers have pivoted from the traditional New Year’s Day scheduling, due in no small part to competition from the six college football bowl games. This year’s game will slot into a Dec. 31 broadcast date with a 4 p.m. local start time. At a press event earlier this month, NHL president of From Sling TV to YouTube TV, here's how you can tune into the NHL Winter Classic this year. Fans of hockey, the 2024 NHL Winter Classic is here! The Winter Classic is traditionally played on On December 31, 2024, the Discover NHL Winter Classic will take place at Chicago’s Wrigley Field and feature the Chicago Blackhawks hosting the St. Louis Blues. It will mark the seventh time the Blackhawks have participated in an NHL regular-season outdoor game and the third time for the Blues. It was then announced that the game would take place on December 31, 2024, which marked the first and only time two Winter Classics were held in one calendar year, and the first Winter Classic to take place on New Year's Eve. [25] The move to New Year's Eve was an effort to minimize competition against ESPN's bowl games, particularly with the For fans figuring out transportation following the game or those with New Year’s Eve plans, the CTA will be offering free rides from 10 p.m. Dec. 31 until 4 a.m. Jan. 1. Recommended Stories 2025 NHL Stadium Series; Ticket Central; Single Game Tickets; 2024-25 Ticket Plans; The first 5,000 fans to attend the New Year’s Eve game, presented by New Amsterdam Vodka, will receive a Nearly 16 years after it first hosted the game, Wrigley Field welcomes back the NHL Winter Classic this week as the Chicago Blackhawks take on the St. Louis Blues. Wrigley Field also hosted the TORONTO — It had been nearly four years on the calendar since Marcus Hogberg led an NHL team out of the tunnel for warmups. He had gone back home to Sweden in the interim, all but falling off This year’s game will be contested on New Year’s Eve, with puck drop slated for just after 5 p.m. ET/4 p.m. CT/2 p.m. PT, according to the NHL. Where will the game air? NHL CHICAGO --The NHL put on a great show the first time the Winter Classic was at Wrigley Field, the iconic home of baseball’s Chicago Cubs, in 2009. The game there this season should be that much NEW JERSEY DEVILS (24-12-3) vs. ANAHEIM DUCKS (14-17-4) New Jersey is in Anaheim as a three-game swing through California begins against the Ducks. You can watch on MSGSN or listen on the Devils For the first time since 2016, hockey fans will be treated to a New Year’s Eve clash between Canada and the United States at the World Junior Hockey Championship. Both teams enter the game, tied CHICAGO --Wrigley Field will be the site of an epic New Year’s celebration as part of the Discover NHL Winter Classic outdoor hockey game featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues
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