The 2024 NHL Winter Classic is an upcoming outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series. The game is scheduled for January 1, 2024, with the Seattle Kraken hosting the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Park, in a battle between the league's two youngest expansion teams.[1]
Background
The league announced the game on January 2, 2023, before the start of the previous season's Winter Classic.[1] This will be the first Winter Classic held in the Pacific Time Zone, as well as Seattle's first outdoor game.[2] Vegas previously appeared in the 2021 NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe.[1]
This will also be the first Winter Classic to take place in a retractable roof stadium. Due to Seattle's rainy climate that may affect ice conditions, organizers planned on closing T-Mobile Park's retractable roof in case of heavy rainfall.[3] This could result in the first "indoor" Winter Classic, and the first such game since the 2014 Heritage Classic at BC Place in Vancouver.
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