2019 NHL Stadium Series
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| Date | February 23, 2019 | |||||||||||||||
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| Arena | Lincoln Financial Field | |||||||||||||||
| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||
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The 2019 NHL Stadium Series (officially the 2019 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series for sponsorship reasons) is a regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game scheduled to be played outdoors, part of the Stadium Series of games held at football or baseball stadiums. The Pittsburgh Penguins will play against the Philadelphia Flyers at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 23, 2019.[1]
This is the only game in the Stadium Series that is scheduled for the 2018–19 season (as opposed to multiple games in 2014 and 2016).
Background
In 2016, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers worked out an agreement to play a home-and-home series of outdoors games.[2] The first game that was planned eventually became the 2017 Stadium Series game at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. The NHL does not usually schedule teams to appear in outdoors games in consecutive years, so Philadelphia does not host this rematch until 2019. The two archrivals had also discussed playing a neutral site game at Beaver Stadium at State College, Pennsylvania, but it never materialized, due mainly to concerns about Beaver Stadium's plumbing being unable to withstand an event in winter.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Philadelphia Flyers (November 19, 2017). "2019 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series Announced". PhiladelphiaFlyers.com. National Hockey League. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- 1 2 Molinari, Dave (February 5, 2016). "Penguins, Flyers planning home-and-home series of outdoors games | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". Post-gazette.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Penn St. officials looking to renovate or replace stadium in near future". ESPN.com. October 1, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.