{"id":9627,"date":"2017-05-09T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2017-05-09T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:51:35","slug":"buffalo-sabres-new-york-rangers-meet-2018-nhl-winter-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/05\/09\/buffalo-sabres-new-york-rangers-meet-2018-nhl-winter-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers to Meet in 2018 NHL Winter Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the first intermission of the Ottawa Senators-New York Rangers game tonight, Commissioner Gary Bettman joined NBC to break news relating to the home team&#8217;s involvement in an annual event put on by the league on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bridgestone\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Bridgestone<\/a> NHL Winter Classic.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NYRangers<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BuffaloSabres<\/a>.<br \/>\nNew Year\u2019s Day.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinterClassic?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WinterClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1AJcRlTa0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1AJcRlTa0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/862102533682196482\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers to Meet in 2018 NHL Winter Classic<\/h3>\n<p>The game will be the sixth Winter Classic played at a baseball park and tenth overall. Yankee Stadium hosted a pair of games in 2014 involving the Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils as part of the Stadium Series with the Rangers winning both games by a combined score of 9-4. The Rangers previously participated in the 2012 Winter Classic at Citizen&#8217;s Bank Park in Philadelphia, winning 3-2 over the host Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Sabres have not been in an outdoor game since 2008 when they hosted the first Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium in front of 71,000-plus, losing 2-1 in a shootout to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Overall this will be the 23rd outdoor game for the League since 2008 and the tenth Winter Classic, marking the tenth anniversary of the first snowy afternoon in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Zero players remain on the Buffalo Sabres roster from the 2008 Winter Classic, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lydmato01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toni Lydman<\/a> was the captain and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/royde01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Roy<\/a> scored 81 points. From the 2012 Rangers, six remain &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundqhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Lundqvist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/girarda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Girardi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdonry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan McDonagh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stepade01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Stepan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staalma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Staal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/richabr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Richards<\/a> scored the game-winning goal and none of the remaining Rangers factored in the result except for Lundqvist, who made 34 saves including one on the penalty shot against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brierda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Briere<\/a> in the final minute.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second outdoor game to be announced for the 2017-18 season. The NHL100 Classic was announced in March and involves the Ottawa Senators who will play the Montreal Canadiens on December 16th of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/485601341\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/485601341?et=oCfgduC9Qw1ah87fiZtiLQ&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=UOyHRyg7PR7t07T0EfAug3pAWvCB5xUMxOkSNtP7Q38=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the first intermission of the Ottawa Senators-New York Rangers game tonight, Commissioner Gary Bettman joined NBC to break news relating to the home team&#8217;s involvement in an annual event put on by the league on New Year&#8217;s Day. 2018 @Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic.@NYRangers vs. @BuffaloSabres. New Year\u2019s Day.#WinterClassic pic.twitter.com\/1AJcRlTa0g \u2014 NHL (@NHL) May 10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,14],"tags":[1627,182,37,48,38],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sabres","category-rangers","tag-2018-nhl-winter-classic","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Griffin Schroeder (Associate Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}