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Wings to play Blackhawks on New Year's Day, 2009 at Wrigley Field
Snapshots — This story JUST broke: May 29, TSN : It appears that NHL Winter Classic will be back and making a visit to the Windy City. TSN has confirmed that the Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings next January in what has become the league's annual outdoor game. Following the success of this season's Winter Classic in Buffalo, where a record 71,217 fans watched the Sabres take on the Pittsburgh Penguins at Ralph Wilson Stadium, a number of cities have been pushing for the right to hold the event. There was talk that New York Rangers were looking into the possibility of ...

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On Outdoor Puck, the NHL Says Chicago Is Its Kind of Town
On Frozen Blog — (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - TSN is reporting today that the NHL has decided that its next outdoor, regular season game will take place in Chicago, between the ‘Hawks and Red Wings, next season: “TSN has confirmed that the Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings next January in what has become the league’s annual outdoor game.” Could the game be on any day but New Years next January? It’s the very city — and the identical two Original Six teams — we suggested just a couple of weeks ago. Interestingly, Soldier Field is only one ...