2020 NHL Winter Classic

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2020 NHL Winter Classic
File:2020 NHL Winter Classic logo.png
1 2 3 Total
Nashville Predators 2 0 0 2
Dallas Stars 0 1 3 4
Date January 1, 2020
Arena Cotton Bowl
City Dallas, Texas
Attendance 85,630
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The 2020 NHL Winter Classic was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series, that was played on January 1, 2020, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The Dallas Stars defeated the Nashville Predators by a score of 4–2. This was the first NHL outdoor game for both teams.[1] With a sold-out crowd of 85,630, it was the second-most attended game in NHL history.[2]

Background

The league announced on January 1, 2019 that the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas would be the site of the game, with the Dallas Stars as the host team.[3] The league then announced on January 25, 2019 that the Nashville Predators would be the visiting team.[4]

The Cotton Bowl has been the home of the First Responder Bowl, a college football bowl game played on or near New Year's Day, since 2011; to accommodate the Winter Classic, the December 30, 2019 edition of the First Responder Bowl was moved to Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park, Texas.[5] The Cotton Bowl previously hosted the Cotton Bowl Classic, another New Year's bowl game, from 1937 to 2009. The stadium has been used for other college football special events such as the State Fair Classic and the Red River Showdown.

On April 23, 2019, the day tickets went on sale to the general public, the event officially sold out, becoming the second-fastest Winter Classic in history to sell out.[6] The crowd of 85,630 became the second-most attended game in NHL history, behind only the 105,491 attendance set at the 2014 NHL Winter Classic.[2][7]

Game summary

The Dallas Stars defeated the Nashville Predators 4–2 after overcoming a 2–0 deficit. Stars forward Corey Perry received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for elbowing Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis in the head at 2:44 into the first period. Ellis did not return for the rest of the game.[8] The league would later give Perry a five-game suspension.[9]

After Dallas forward Blake Comeau's delay of game penalty at 4:22 gave the Predators a 5-on-3 advantage, forward Matt Duchene scored the icebreaker at 5:46, then defenseman Dante Fabbro gave Nashville a 2–0 lead at 7:36 moments before Perry's five-minute major expired.[2]

The Stars would then score four unanswered goals en route to the win. Comeau would give Dallas its first goal with 1:08 remaining in the second period. Then after forward Colin Blackwell was called for delay of game at 19:11 of the second, forward Mattias Janmark scored the equalizer on the ensuing power play 58 seconds into the third. Forward Alexander Radulov scored a power play goal at 5:06 to give the Stars their first lead, and defenseman Andrej Sekera added his team's fourth goal at 6:35.[7]

Both goaltenders, Ben Bishop of the Stars and Pekka Rinne of the Predators, made 31 saves.[2][7]

Scoring summary
Period Team Goal Assist(s) Time Score
1st NSH Matt Duchene (9) – pp Filip Forsberg (14), Roman Josi (26) 05:46 NSH 1–0
NSH Dante Fabbro (4) – pp Matt Duchene (19), Roman Josi (27) 07:36 NSH 2–0
2nd DAL Blake Comeau (5) Jason Dickinson (7), Esa Lindell (11) 18:52 NSH 2–1
3rd DAL Mattias Janmark (5) – pp John Klingberg (15), Roope Hintz (6) 00:58 2–2
DAL Alexander Radulov (12) – pp John Klingberg (16), Jamie Benn (11) 05:06 DAL 3–2
DAL Andrej Sekera (1) Radek Faksa (7), Mattias Janmark (9) 06:35 DAL 4–2
Number in parenthesis represents the player's total in goals or assists to that point of the season
Penalty summary
Period Team Player Penalty Time PIM
1st DAL Corey Perry (served by Alexander Radulov) Elbowing 02:44 5:00
DAL Corey Perry Game misconduct 02:44 10:00
DAL Blake Comeau Delay of game (puck over glass) 04:22 2:00
NSH Matthew Irwin Tripping 08:38 Penalty shot
DAL Radek Faksa Roughing 11:27 2:00
NSH Colin Blackwell Roughing 11:27 2:00
2nd
DAL Tyler Seguin Boarding 11:00 2:00
NSH Roman Josi Cross-checking 16:44 2:00
NSH Colin Blackwell Delay of game (puck over glass) 19:11 2:00
3rd NSH Ryan Johansen Hooking 03:42 2:00
Three star selections
Team Player Statistics
1st DAL Blake Comeau 1 goal
2nd DAL John Klingberg 2 assists
3rd NSH Matt Duchene 1 goal, 1 assist

Team rosters

^ Juuse Saros and Anton Khudobin dressed as the back-up goaltenders. Neither entered the game.

Scratches

Entertainment

The country music group Midland performed before the teams took the ice.[10] Jake Hoot, the winner of season 17 of the talent competition The Voice, sang the national anthem.[11] The pop music duo Dan + Shay performed during the first intermission.[12] The second intermission entertainment was a tribute to the State Fair of Texas, featuring the SMU Mustangs and Texas A&M Aggies dance teams and a rodeo show.[11]

Television

NBC broadcast the game in the U.S., as it has done since the Winter Classic's first game in 2008. In Canada, Sportsnet televised the game in English, while TVA Sports broadcast it in French.

Ratings

The 2020 Winter Classic was the least-watched game in the event's history, drawing only 1.97 million viewers. An error in the Nielsen reporting counted the hour-long pregame show as part of the game itself, which appears to be the primary factor in the ratings drop, as the game's primary competition—college football bowl games on ESPN and ABC—also saw lower cumulative viewership (though the two bowls scheduled opposite the Winter Classic individually had higher ratings than the year before, when there were three bowls in the slot).[13] WGRZ in Buffalo, New York was the highest-rated local station, ahead of even Nashville (WSMV) and Dallas (KXAS),[14] both of which set market records for NHL viewership with the contest.[15]

References

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  15. ↑ https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars/2020/01/03/stars-predators-the-least-viewed-winter-classic-ever-but-highest-rated-game-in-dallas-and-nashville/
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