Letters to the Editor
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@sagcat
I couldn't agree more. The only decent New Year's Day game was the Capital One Bowl between Michigan and Florida, which had all the good things college football can be. Is anyone noting the time of the "International Bowl" on their TV viewing calendar? By setting up the championship game, the PTB have essentially made the New Year's games into just another day of football, and compared to an exciting and interesting hockey game, they couldn't compete. I loved watching the snow fall on the rink, it really did bring back memories of skating outdoors as a child.
The difficulty with some of the more obvious cities for outdoor hockey is the lack of outdoor stadia in Detroit, Toronto (the retractable roof for the Rogers Centre is sealed shut for the winter) or Montreal. I believe the whole idea of this came from a college hockey game at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, though, between Michigan State and Michigan Tech (may have the opponent wrong, but no matter). So why not the Wings and the Blackhawks there next year?