Sabres to Host Game Outdoors

[zata40 3]

buffalo Sabres will be hosting an outdoor game on New Year's Day against Pittsburgh. sounds fun, now the wings need to do it.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=49444

http://wgr550.com/sabres/fullstory.php?id=2504

[Rivalred 630]

I do not remember the actual temperature on New Years, but about 4-10 days before Christmas is was around 55 degrees in Alpena, MI when I was hunting....

With the weather being so whacky the last couple years, setting a date and having the weather cold enough is a high risk in my eyes. It worked great in Canada when they did it, but that is also farther West and North from Metro Detroit or even Buffalo or Pitts.

Edited August 25, 2007 by Rivalred

[CrossoverThrash 0]

The did it here in WI a few years back

[scsgoal31 0]

Seriously? The NHL just doesn't get it. What in the world do they think most people are watching on New Year's Day? It's a sporting event, but it sure isn't hockey.

*EDIT* Ahhh wait, both of these articles are from July 10th, when the talk of this was first brought up. Nothing new to report and certainly not official

Edited August 25, 2007 by scsgoal31

[lfd250 1]

Seriously? The NHL just doesn't get it. What in the world do they think most people are watching on New Year's Day? It's a sporting event, but it sure isn't hockey.

*EDIT* Ahhh wait, both of these articles are from July 10th, when the talk of this was first brought up. Nothing new to report and certainly not official

Well they are trying to figure how to make ice for their football stadium.

[Skiing - Puck 0]

Well they are trying to figure how to make ice for their football stadium.

Thats not hard at all. Just do what Michigan State did for the Cold War. There are companys that you can rent an outdoor ice sheet from, and they will come about a week before and set it up and that also will allow the two teams to have a couple of practices to get used to the bounces from the boards and glass.

[MacK_Attack 108]

*EDIT* Ahhh wait, both of these articles are from July 10th, when the talk of this was first brought up. Nothing new to report and certainly not official

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=216851&hubname=nhl

[KronwallCRUNCH 5]

lmao, can't wait to see the ratings for this one on NYD. I won't be watching, I can tell you that much. Way to go (again) NHL!

[Arelius19 0]

i love outdoor games.

The last one was alot of fun to watch. I loved Theodores hat that he wore over his helmet. I saw some great photos of him in it during the game…

[BlakChamber 8]

What a piss poor day to pick for the game. Going up against college bowl games does not equal good ratings. I think the game will do fine for attendance, since neither Buffalo or Pittsburgh are college football cities and the two cities are pretty close to each other.

Really, they should have saved this and done it the week between the conference championship games and the Superbowl.

[JayUp88 1]

how cool would this be to have the wings and the leafs play

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

The did it here in WI a few years back

Yeah, but that was the Badgers hockey game, not the NHL.

Sidenote: The video for that game absolutely sucked due to piss-poor camera angles.