Beyond the pomp and circumstance, there’s an argument to be made that DallasStars vs. PredsNHL could be the fiercest actual hockey game in WinterClassic history. (lukefoxjukebox)
DALLAS – As he made the long walk out of the Cotton Bowl’s spacious home locker room and down the tunnel to a hockey rink where the 50-yard line should be, and as he looked up at the vast empty bowl that would soon be filled with rabid Southern hockey fans, football nut“Walking out to a full stadium like that… I think that’s kind of the coolest part. You’re gonna feel like Ray Lewis there doing the dance,” smiled the“Too bad we couldn’t do this every game.
The NHL allotted some 20,000 seats to Wednesday’s Classic for the road team to hawk to its fan base, knowing that unsold tickets could spill back into the Dallas market in order to pile the maximum number of people into an open-air college football stadium for a hockey event.Nearly 30,000 Nashville supporters will invade Cotton Bowl Stadium on New Year’s Day for a game that matters — to the playoff race as well as the memory bank.
“The folks that live here know a big event, and they do it really, really well. So, we had great confidence that coming here, we could put on our show,” said Meyer, originally planning to tarp over swaths of empty seat and play to a crowd of 65,000. “We’ll be honest: We didn’t think we could sell 85,000 tickets. Then the tickets went on sale, and we were like, ‘This is unbelievable.’”
Imagine that. The league’s southernmost outdoor game will draw the second-largest regular-season attendance in NHL and inject a Texas-sized $30 million into the local economy.“It says a lot about the growth of the sport in general to be in Texas, against a team in Nashville, and close to 90,000 people that want to watch a hockey game outdoors.”
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