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NHL Official Release: Because so many teams wanted one, next season there will be 8 Stanley Cups.

Hey NHL, way to take a great event and water it down!!

I would play Tatar, but I'm also president of his fan club. esteef

Agreed... Would love to see Minny take a lost tonight along with the blues... even though I have elliot in net tonight for fantasy... sigh haha... On a side note i know i will be taking in every moment of silence I can and I am rooting for a big Boston win tomorrow for the city of Boston and Martin Richard...

Wings/Leafs will be the most epic, of course, but this really makes the WC a joke, especially if they continue to do this. Way to f*** up another cool thing about hockey, NHL. Will it never end?

I'm not opposed to the idea of multiple outdoor games, but the epicness with which the NHL continues to f*** up a good thing just astounds me. Of course it would be during the year the Wings are hosting the WC, in the biggest venue yet, and of course one team will get TWO OUTDOOR GAMES DAYS APART BEFORE OTHER TEAMS GET EVEN ONE. EVER. Internet, help me out: Here's to you, NHL!

I haven't been this mad at the NHL in like...a week.

I'm dying for an uninteresting finals and toilet ratings for that very season. at some point it will happen.

agreed. they've been lucky with parity so far with good finals matchups. but good luck with the ratings when we see a nashville vs florida finals

Don't be obtuse. It's likely that Bertuzzi and Samuelsson would have scored at around a 20-goal pace, and Helm at his usual pace of 10-15 goals. Over a regular season, that equates to around 50 goals. In this shortened season, it figures to around 25-30. Does this help? I don't see how you can say that having a third line that could score would not benefit this team in a rather large way.

Jupiter is just silly. It doesn't even have a surface. Europa is a much better idea, since it's already made of ice.

They can play good hockey inside. It'd make a nice game of the week for NBC. Much of the appeal of the WC comes from the novelty. Novelty that is eroded with over-exposure. Then you have Pittsburgh in a 3rd outdoor game, Rangers in their 2nd and 3rd, Chicago and Detroit both in a second, Philly's already had two... While it's understandable to want the biggest ratings draws in an event like this, and it's nice that some new teams will be featured, they shouldn't do it all in one season.

The New Red River Rivalry Venue: Cotton Bowl non-traditional markets Dallas Stars vs Nashville Predators Avg temp in January in Texas is high 80's. Would be EPIC!!

Little Gary just couldn't help try to be the Oprah of the NHL. You get a Winter Classic! And YOU get a Winter Classic! And YOU get a Winter Classic too! And that team over there? THEY get a Winter Classic! Just when you thought that the greed & stupidity of the NHL front office & owners had hit its nadir... (now watch them be all surprised when the ratings of outdoor games 3-6 drop well below what they expect)

There was a preseason game in Vegas back in '91. If they can make ice in September in the middle of the desert, LA in January should be easy. That's the one game that seems like a decent idea. Though it would have been much better to make it the WC in 2015. I predict that by 2018, Pittsburgh will play their entire schedule outdoors.

Definitely want Bert back, Helm is out of the season and Sammy will be injured either way

SIX?!! Well, there went the "Classic" from the "Winter Classic".

Oh hey, they just had to figure a way to get Pittsburgh into another one of these. They even matched them up against an opponent that means absolutely nothing, and doesn't pose any excitement. ******* stupid NHL.

Such a joke!!!!! I despise the heads of the NHL... Rangers 2 winter classics in 3 days

Solid deal. He's getting his worth right now. In three years this will be a steal when the cap is up.

There is a pretty good argument that if we spent the money on Wiz we would be worse off. He's been injured a ton since 2010, he's a one dimensional guy that would play a ton of minutes and hurt us defensively. Do we really think that having Wiz here missing 40+ games last season and 1/3 of this one( he's only played more than 70 games once in his career) would really help us that much? Then add to the salary he's making and the constraints of us actually going for a player that would make us better in he future? You pay 5 million + on really good players that can stay healthy, Wisniewski is not this type of player in my opinion. His offensive skill would probably be worth it for some teams, but with his injury history in addition to our defense that really lacks a lock-down defensive guy outside of Ericsson, he would not be the answer.

I respectfully disagree.Bert is effective with Pav and more importantly Pav likes playing with him. He's helpful in the shootout and with us fighting for every point we can get, a shootout point can make or break the end of this season for us. Last, we only have one player that anybody is even remotely intimidated by (Tootoo) and with Bert we'd have another. I like having a big, tough, guy on a line with Dats. Bert brings a lot to this team. If you don't see that we're lacking in his absence, then we haven't been watching the same top 6 this season.

^ What are you talking about kip? Holland convinced Commodore to come to Detroit! esteef

Seriously, let it rest. You going to bring up Bert in every thread about a player getting injured? I'm sure somewhere Steve Moore is happy you are fervently championing his cause, but in the end you just come off looking like a troll.

Gosh, this whole stressing out about a bunch of non-Detroit games thing is exhausting!