UM Hockey to play at CoPa - NHL Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium per mlive.com
According to mlive.com - here's the LINK. Michigan Stadium will hold the 2013 Winter Classic. Yes, we know it's been coming, but it is now official The NHL will announce tomorrow.
Also learned in this link above is the GLI will be played outdoors at Comerica Park. So, Michigan Hockey will now play outdoors AGAIN....
I think I'll wear my David Harlock game worm Toronto Maple Leafs sweater to the game. He was afterall the first 3-time Captain at UM....
Go Blue!
February 8th, 2012 at 2:06 PM ^
I hope to be there, unless I'm at Michigan's bowl game. I hope we manage a late BCS bowl again so the place is full... Can it realistically sell out if the droves of Michigan fans who normally fill the Big House are either at our bowl game or elsewhere watching it on tv?
February 8th, 2012 at 2:17 PM ^
It's the Red Wings and the Maple Leafs. They two of the biggest fanbases in the NHL and both are within driving distance.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:37 PM ^
I can't waet! I hope I stay worm.
/jerk
Edit: Spelling mostly changed, so this post is irrelevant.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:14 PM ^
Thanks HeadAsplode! I've changed my spelling! But I appriciate your comments!
February 8th, 2012 at 2:20 PM ^
If they coordinate these games well (and Michigan's bowl game doesn't interfere), I think this will be a really great event for Ann Arbor / Detroit. I feel like the novelty of playing outside is losing its uniqueness, but hopefully it gives all fans the opportunity to see them play outdoors.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:17 PM ^
Ads and booze will be filling Michigan Stadium
All for $3 million
February 8th, 2012 at 2:21 PM ^
The Future begins now. Brace yourselves.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:27 PM ^
It wasn't all that long ago that booze filled the stadium. It's just that the U didn't get a cut then.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:27 PM ^
Bleh.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:15 PM ^
Until about 30 years or so ago, it was OK to bring alcohol into Michigan Stadium. Then, for a few more years, they allowed "pass-outs" at halftime. A few years later, they even stopped that.
Nothing like giving adults the right to make their own decisions concerning alcohol...
February 8th, 2012 at 3:31 PM ^
My roommate's dad was here in the early 80s and said they used to buy an extra ticket and bring a keg into the student section with them. Maybe if we allowed this students would show up on time? Just a hypothetical.
Both venues will be great and should fill up. Does anyone know the fourth team in the GLI next year?
February 8th, 2012 at 3:33 PM ^
The free press is saying that it will be Western Michigan this year, but I thought I had previously heard it was St Cloud State. Not sure if they got the boot to try to get better attendance.
http://www.freep.com/article/20120208/SPORTS05/120208026/Finally-Hockey…
February 8th, 2012 at 11:25 PM ^
My mom and little brother would watch the first half in the stadium; we'd walk over from a friend's house on 3rd St. at halftime. Mom and little bro out, Dad and big bro in. With a 12 pack of Miller Lite (all for Dad - I was 8). Between that and the fact that section 16 smelled like some major doobage, I'd have to imagine the games were a good time. #1984
February 8th, 2012 at 2:30 PM ^
to ask, tickets via the AD? Or strictly via the NHL or the Wings and Leafs?
I know someone posted yesterday a series of jaw-dropping prices for the earlier Wings Winter Classic event at Wrigley. Did any Cubbie fans have dibs or priority on those tix?
February 8th, 2012 at 2:32 PM ^
The University will not be involved other than helping out with stadium operations
(See the link in my above post to the Det News)
February 8th, 2012 at 2:50 PM ^
but didn't see anything that definitive during my quick read. I guess we wait for the NHL to announce prices and availability, etc. (Really was hoping it wouldn't be NHL, Wings and Leafs, to be honest. Wanted my Priority Points to have value here, too.)
February 8th, 2012 at 3:25 PM ^
February 8th, 2012 at 3:30 PM ^
I have a real hard time believing they're going to be able to sell 110,000 tickets for this thing if the nosebleeds are $100+. No freaking way.
February 8th, 2012 at 4:04 PM ^
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February 8th, 2012 at 2:38 PM ^
News conferences have been scheduled for Michigan Stadium, which will host the game in front of an anticipated NHL-record crowd of more than 110,000, and Comerica Park, which will host several events leading up to the Classic, including AHL, OHL and college games.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:22 PM ^
I am very excited about this, I hope my schedule allows me to attend. Who am I kidding, I don't have a schedule.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:24 PM ^
It's really cool that the University has both the largest football and hockey single-game attendances ever. It bothers me that we're allowing the NHL to take the spotlight from the university in our own stadium for some cash. Money isn't everything Dave
February 8th, 2012 at 3:31 PM ^
DB is countering this by saying it just means we'll have to have another game and beat the record.
Read: Moar Arby's!
February 8th, 2012 at 3:41 PM ^
Man, you really can bitch about anything, can't you?
February 8th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
No, but I can point out a money-grab when I see one.
February 8th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
I don't mind this
I can deal with some advertising to raise revenue.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:57 PM ^
That would have been a golden quote "Money isn't everything, Mortimer!"
February 8th, 2012 at 4:39 PM ^
is funny as hell. plus you get to see jamie lee's boobs.
February 8th, 2012 at 4:27 PM ^
one way or the other really. Meh
February 8th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
this is a good thing. i wonder what throw-back sweater will the wings be wearing?
February 8th, 2012 at 5:36 PM ^
I have heard some chatter that they will be wearing the striped sweaters with Detroit on the front. They wore the same sweater sometime in the early 90s as part of some NHL-wide promotion or something.
February 8th, 2012 at 5:16 PM ^
I hope this gives the EA people enough time to code the Big House into NHL 13
February 8th, 2012 at 5:35 PM ^
I skipped out on NHL 12 this year, and was always planning to buy it next year, but this would make that purchase even sweeter.
February 8th, 2012 at 6:09 PM ^
Labatt Blue jersey, Michigan hockey jersey, or Montreal Canadiens Roy jersey
February 8th, 2012 at 6:45 PM ^
Definitely Michigan jersey, nobody liked Roy
February 8th, 2012 at 7:06 PM ^
February 8th, 2012 at 7:30 PM ^
No jersey.
February 9th, 2012 at 1:44 AM ^
Haha I forgot about that commercial.
Go with the Michigan jersey or the Labatts. Roy is still hated in town and Toronto fans despise MTL.
February 9th, 2012 at 2:41 AM ^
outdoors is just wrong.