PHILADELPHIA -- Next week, a hockey game will be played outdoors in Citizens Bank Park. The temperature right now is unseasonably warm, although this is the risk the NHL was willing to take when it agreed to play the annual Winter Classic in Philadelphia, the southern-most city that has hosted the event.
This will be the fifth incarnation of the Winter Classic, with the first four being played in Buffalo, Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh. The NHL has experienced different weather patterns for the event, and the game needed to be moved to the evening in Pittsburgh last season, when it was rainy and in the low 50s during the afternoon.
