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The NHL Gets The 2013 Winter Classic Location Wrong
by Paul on 02/10/12 at 12:15 PM ET
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from Rob Parker at WDIV, It’s official.
The NHL should really be called the NGL, as in National Gimmick League.
It seems like that’s all the National Hockey League is about these days, so much so that it messed up an event that was actually pretty cool.
Somehow, the NHL powers-that-be didn’t believe that Hockeytown was good enough to host the 2013 Winter Classic.
Terrible.
Instead, they scheduled the Jan. 1 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings to play at Michigan Stadium. The league simply dissed the fact these two Original Six teams having been playing in Detroit for more than 50 years. Instead, they want to set some silly attendance record by using the Big House to sell more than 100,000 tickets.
It’s cheap, it’s tasteless. Especially since a few years ago Michigan and Michigan State did it already in a college
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2013 Winter Classic Announcement
by Paul on 02/09/12 at 10:11 AM ET
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If available, I will post a stream of the announcement which is scheduled for 10:30am ET.
Streaming should be from both Comerica Park at 10:30am followed by a conference at 11:15am from The Big House.
Stream can be watched below when available…
added 10:26am, Stream is now live below…
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The Big House Will Host The 2013 Winter Classic
by Paul on 02/08/12 at 12:38 PM ET
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from Paige Percy and Matt Slovin of The Michigan Daily,
The NHL will pay the University $3 million to rent the Big House and will require use of the stadium from Dec. 1, 2012 to mid-January, according to a communication to the regents from Athletic Director Dave Brandon and Timothy Slottow, the University’s executive vice president and chief financial officer. The Winter Classic game will take place on Jan. 1, 2013 and has an alternate date of Jan. 2, 2013.
During the meeting, Brandon said the NHL is expected to donate a “significant” amount to student scholarships at the University from its charitable foundation….
Brandon said he expects the event to draw in excess of $14 million in economic activity to Ann Arbor.Newman added that the economic boost is one of the key reasons the regents approved the lease.
“One of the factors that we discussed when considering this was the economic value to the city of Ann Arbor and the surrounding community and the goodness this would do for restaurants and hotels and shops and other activity in the area,” Newman said. “I think that at a time of year where it’s otherwise quiet, doing something like this makes a lot of sense.”
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