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cybok0 said:

Make one in Tampa or Miami, and let the Florida teams play.

Not the same atmosphere, but why should the cold cities get all the exposure.

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dishcomm said:

The event is "The Winter Classic". Imagine the atmospehere of this event in 80 degree weather at Doplhins stadium and the potted palms in the background. Blecch!

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SamCdbs said:

IMHO:

The NHL does not want to do Canada. Canadian sites will not garner the casual media attention that a US baseball or football venue will. And, since Toronto. Montreal and Vancouver's largest stadiums are domes anyway, its almost a moot point. Most of the CFL stadiums other than Commonwealth (already been there) are not really that big.

Chicago is a little too far south. As others have posted, it could have gone poorly if the weather had been just a little above normal.

Detroit would be great, which would mean the baseball park since the football field is a dome, but playing at the "Big House" would be an even better deal.

Pittsburgh is likewise too far south, and the NFL stadium has an awful grass field and the Steelers are likely to make the playoffs. But a Pens-Flyers game at State College is interesting. The only issue that is that State College is, as Beano Cook once said, tied with Pullman, Washington as the hardest place to get to that you actually would want to go to. Here the issue is bad weather, because the place is not tied to the interstate highway system and is up in the mountains.

Denver seems to make sense.

Minneapolis, when the university opens its new outdoor football stadium (the baseball park is also an outdoor, but why bother) , would be extremely logical. Its probably the most natural hockey market in the US in terms of youth participants and thus knowledgable fans.

Columbus, at OSU, is as interesting as Detroit at UM, but too far south to be safe.

If they are trying to draw attention, Chicago and Detoit could meet again in a few years, at Notre Dame.

New York City just runs too much risk of mediocre weather, although the two new baseball stadiums would be interesting, as would the new Meadowlands stadium, but with two teams sharing it, it would be hard to find time to set up. Rutgers and UConn both have 40K all chair back stadiums, and there is the Yale Bowl as well.

Boston would have to Fenway, because of the Patriots, but Harvard, BC and most of the other too many colleges where too little thinking goes on in that town have stadiums as well.

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cybok0 said:

Just because it's 80 degrees, doesn't mean it's not winter.

I'm all for a Pens Vs. Flyers game at Penn State, but I also think teams shouldn't be left out because of were they are at. If that is the case, then might as well pack up every team south of the Mason Dixon and move them all north.

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dishcomm said:

You're right. It is winter. But it is the atmosphere that matters. When we think of winter , we envison cold temps, snow on the ground, hot chocolate. The images of Pina Colladas , sandals and tank tops hardly gets there.
The NHL is going to involve as many of the Original 6 as possible. Then their biggest rivals. And the games will be played in the largest tv markets.
And as far as packing up southern teams, you may very well see that. Check attendance figs in Atlanta, Nashville and Miami. Not to impressive.

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cybok0 said:

But living in western PA, I have images of Pina Coladas , sandals and tank tops every time it gets cold.

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