NHL's New Year's Day outdoor game needs host

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Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (kanadienkyle) at Illegal Curve
Despite a last minute comeback, the US loses to Finland in OT. Bob McKenzie notes that the hockey gods gave one back to Dallas. Memorial Cup history, 1946 and 1947. The proposal to play an outdoor game at Yankee Stadium has hit a snag. Stan Fischler dishes out heaps of gossip and news in his weekly column. ...

Maybe last game at Stadium will be baseball after all
Published 5/15/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
It now appears the NHL Winter Classic might not close Yankee Stadium, according to this story.

Yankee Stadium: Too old to host the Winter Classic?
Published 5/15/2008 at Puck Daddy
... are slimming, thanks to "some construction going on." Said Bettman, "There are some winterization issues because it's an older stadium. As I sit here today, I don't know whether or not they can be resolved." What a coincidence: Just last month it was reported that in order to "winterize" the plumbing in the ...

Searching for the Next Great Outdoor Game
Published 5/15/2008 by pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog
... Yankee Stadium may be out as the site for an outdoor NHL game next New Year’s Day, according to today’s USA Today. Both New York baseball teams are building new stadiums, and there’s an enormous amount of construction associated with those sites as well as others in the respective burroughs of Queens and the Bronx. ...