With the WinterClassic set to draw the second-largest regular-season crowd up to this point, we look back at every outdoor game up to this point to rank the 10 best individual performances.
The Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins faced off at Lincoln Financial Field in Philly earlier this year, re-igniting the rivalry for the Pennsylvanian fans in what the league dubbed the ‘Stadium Series.’
With the two clubs playing out a nail-biter, Jonathan Bernier stood tall in the cage to the tune of a 41-save performance, turning aside six from Zetterberg alone, with other talents like Pavel Datsyuk, Alfredsson and Tomas Tatar all in the mix for that Red Wings squad as well. With the Canadiens only launching 28 shots on net and Ottawa holding on for a 3-0 win, Pageau’s early marker held up as the game-winner.The St. Louis Blues earned their first outdoor game in 2017, and it came against the outdoor classic veterans, the Chicago Blackhawks.
But it was Letestu’s that held up as the best of the game, with the veteran checking all the boxes on his way to the cage: shorthanded, on a breakaway, for the eventual game-winner.The Maple Leafs got another memorable outdoor tilt in 2018, taking on the Washington Capitals at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for one of the league’s Stadium Series games.
Though the game itself wasn’t the most thrilling — a 4-0 shellacking by the Flames that saw goals from Alex Tanguay, Anton Babchuk and Rene Bourque — it was the play in the hometown net that was most memorable. That was the case in ’09, as with stacked rosters on both sides — Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom, and on and on — it was Jiri Hudler emerging as the hero of the night.
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