The Chicago Blackhawks are set for a rematch in the 2025 Winter Classic, taking on the St. Louis Blues at Wrigley Field per team reporter Ben Pope with the Chicago Suntimes. This will be a reliving of the 2017 Winter Classic which saw St. Louis topple Chicago 4-1 at Busch Stadium, the home to the MLB’s St. Louis Cardinals. They’ll now move to the home of the Chicago Cubs, effectively embracing the thick rivalries between the two cities.
This announcement will, above all else, provide future NHL star Connor Bedard with the first outdoor game of his NHL career. The top overall selection in last year’s draft is no stranger to outdoor games, with the WHL’s Regina Pats routinely hosting outdoor events like the Hockey Night on Wascana. But he will need to make sure he’s used to the setting if he plans to stay in Chicago. The 2025 Winter Classic will mark the fifth time that Chicago has played in the event. Couple that with two stadium series appearances, and the Blackhawks will take the lead for most outdoor games of any NHL club when they take the ice at Wrigley Field next year. Chicago will be beating out the Pittsburgh Penguins, who have seen three Winter Classics and three Stadium Series games.
This news also sets up Wrigley Field to become just the second venue to host two Winter Classics – fittingly sharing the title with Boston’s Fenway Park. The Blackhawks will hope for a better outcome than their last game at Wrigley, which ended in a 6-4 defeat at the hands of Jiri Hudler and the Detroit Red Wings.
Wow, with the ongoing Canadian Junior investigation preceeded by the Hawks cover up, this is the perfect time and team to reward with this type of event. Good for the NHL to market a premier player that was allowed to go to such a disgusting organization bravo bravo !
Would it make it better for you, or worse, if the Blues hire Joel Quennville this offseason to return behind the bench?
Wtf are you even talking about? This is what you’re pretending to be outraged over:
A grown man and professional athlete claimed that a coach threatened him with a toy mini bat to force him to let him blow him, and the Blackhawks front office didn’t immediately call a press conference to announce it to the world.
Quit your tired, fake pearl-clutching.
Someone call the whambulance.
Ah yes! The next novelty Bettman money grab.
If something occurs on a regular basis, please explain how it is a novelty. And you certainly have never run a business but making money on a product or service is the idea if one would like to continue in business, so you are not really uncovering a deep company secret here. But please continue to rant, babble, and yap your simple yet fun form of entertainment.
Good to hear from one of my favorite critics! And as always, You are welcome.
We NEED an alumni game again. Especially for these two teams. Gretzky for St Louis Ed Belfour for the Hawks!
gary can have ten outdoor games a year. Can’t have best on best for years.
Ah yeah, two non-competitive teams.
Creamed my pantz.
Poor Mikey Rags can’t shake his nasty case of CDS – Chicago Derangement Syndrome. Praying for you Brother.
Winter classic loves the Black Hawks.
How about forcing Chicago to try & ice a competitive team, Gary? Between them Arizona, the scuzziest clubs seem to get special privileges…
Except Coyotes lost a 1st Round pick for working out a prospect and the Hawks cover up a sexual assault case and end up with the 1st pick in the draft….