UM Hockey to play at CoPa - NHL Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium per mlive.com

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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!

 

Purkinje

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?

HeadAsplode

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.

Tater

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...

mich12fan

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? 

Cock D

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

lexus larry

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?

lexus larry

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.) 

Blueisgood

February 8th, 2012 at 3:25 PM ^

I highly doubt it. The university really isn't going to have anything to do with it. Its gonna be in the NHLs court. I have read that the Wings and Leafs season ticket holders have priority. Then you got all the media, alumni, sponsors, etc. I think this is going to be a hard ticket to pull. What will be left are gonna be $100 and at the top of the stadium. Time will tell however. I hope I'm wrong because I plan on going.

M-Wolverine

February 8th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^

In a Stadium a tiny percentage of the size. The only reason you got that many for the Big Chill was you had football people, two local fanbases, and it was dirt cheap, and a novelty. They could do it with ten dollar tickets. But that's going to be hard to pull off with $3 mil going to U-M (like $30 per seat), even with NBC money. Unless they're planning on doing it just so ESPN will actually mention their sport, and plan on taking a huge loss and selling tickets dirt cheap. Because all their Stadium's fans will be watching something else somewhere else. You can't underestimate hockey fans passion, but you can overestimate their numbers. The NHL better be setting up "historic" tour packages in Canada.

MGoShoe

February 8th, 2012 at 2:38 PM ^

...article, there is no need to freak out about a possible OHL game at Michigan Stadium. As expected, those games will be at Comerica.

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. 

lhglrkwg

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

Brendan

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.