BOSTON– The Seattle Kraken will host the 2024 Discover NHL Winter Classic at T-Mobile Park on January 1. January 1, 2024 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
The NHL’s first away game in Seattle will feature the two newest NHL additions at the home of Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners.
“We’re very excited,” said Kraken CEO Tod Lewieke. “I think in some ways those things that we hoped to happen are the things that we dreamed of. But it’s a great honor that in our third season we’re going to be hosting, really, an international event.”
The Kraken are in their second season since joining the NHL as the 32nd team for the 2021-22 season.
“It’s a big deal, all the other teams are thinking about this kind of event and all the other teams want to organize these events,” Leiweke said. “We had to make our point. The city is great for big events. But it basically required a partnership between the Mariners, beautiful T Mobile and the whole organization.”
The match will be broadcast exclusively on TNT in the United States and on Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada. A time will be announced later.
“We are thrilled to have Discover as Principal Title Sponsor, Title Partner, that we have just extended our decade-plus relationship,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said on the broadcast. TNT preview for the Discover 2023 NHL Winter. Classic. “And what makes them great is how active they are around the game. So we’re thrilled, and I think the storylines, Seattle versus Vegas, speak for themselves.”
The Kraken will become the 29th NHL team to play in an outdoor regular season game. This will be the second appearance for the Golden Knights, who faced the Colorado Avalanche at the 2021 NHL Outdoors in Lake Tahoe on Feb. 2. 20, 2021.
“It’ll be pretty cool,” Golden Knights forward said mark the stone said. “These games are really fun. You don’t really understand it until you’re there. I’ve played outdoor games before and the environment at the facility is much better than watching it at home. television. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. I’m sure we can bring family to Seattle to enjoy a few days. It’ll be fun.”
In addition to the game at Lake Tahoe, Stone also played for the Ottawa Senators when they defeated the Montreal Canadiens away in the NHL 100 at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Ont., on December 21, 2019. 16 , 2017.
Seattle will be the first Pacific Division team to host the Winter Classic, which has never been contested west of the Central Time Zone.
The Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks hosted away games, but none were the Winter Classic. The Oilers, Flames and Canucks hosted the Heritage Classic games; the Kings and Sharks have hosted Stadium Series games.
T-Mobile Park will be the 14th different venue and eighth ballpark to host the NHL’s first regular season event since its inception in 2008.
Fenway Park, home of MLB’s Boston Red Sox, has hosted the event twice, in 2010 and again this year.
Other baseball stadiums that will host the Winter Classic are Wrigley Field in Chicago (2009), Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia (2012), Nationals Park in Washington (2015), Busch Stadium in St. Louis, USA United. Louis (2017), Citi Field in New York (2018) and Target Field in Minneapolis (2022).
The T-Mobile Park has a retractable roof, which will allow the NHL to build the rink and stage the field with scenery throughout the facility in all weather conditions. The goal will be to play the game with the roof open.
“The roof doesn’t hurt,” Leiweke said. “So if the weather isn’t cooperating, dragging a roof over so we have an outdoor game, sheltered from the weather. A big factor was the Mariner’s willingness to lean. We’ve been a big supporter enthusiastic Major “The Baseball League All-Star Game (scheduled for 2023) is coming here.”
The ballpark has a capacity of 47,929 and has been open since July 15, 1999. It has also hosted college football and soccer games, WWE’s WrestleMania in 2003, and concerts.
The NHL hosted 36 outdoor regular season games, including the 2023 Discover NHL Winter Classic between the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins at Fenway Park on Monday.
The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals will compete in the 2023 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina on February 2. 18.
The NHL announced Saturday that the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers will compete in the 2023 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alta., on Oct. 21. 29.
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