The Winter Classic has been the NHL's signature regular-season event since the 2007-08 season, taking a New Year's Day game outdoors to various football and baseball stadiums across North America.

Both teams have frequented the outdoor game scene, but this marked the first time the two rivals square off in a Winter Classic. The 2025 event took place at Wrigley Field, home of the MLB's ...

After all, it was the Bills who hosted the inaugural NHL Winter Classic between the hometown Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins at then-Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008. With the Bills set to open a ...

Ilya Bryzgalov struggled for a major part of the season with the Philadelphia Flyers -- enough so that he was not the Flyers starter for the 2012 NHL Winter Classic. Maybe the distraction of HBO's ...