Despite the fact that everyone already knew about it, the Flyers will be playing the Boston Bruins on January 1st, 2010 up at Fenway Park for the 3rd Annual NHL Winter Classic.
Click to go to my official Examiner.com story with all the details.
Since I knew about this months ago I will spare you all the details if you don’t want them. The above link has the full story based on the press release I recently got from the Philadelphia Flyers organization as well as some stuff I found out before hand. The video of the press conference in Fenway featuring everyone’s favorite commissioner, Gary Bettman, is up on both the main Flyers page and the main NHL page.
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Examiner.com – Flyers officially announced as Winter Classic participant (me)
NHL.com – Flyers-Bruins to hit the ice at Boston’s Fenway Park (Dan Rosen)
Flyers.NHL.com – Flyers to Ring in New Year vs. Bruins (Flyers’ staff)
Philly.com – It’s official: Flyers in Winter Classic (Daily News staff)
TheHockeyWriters.com – Flyers Shipping Up to Boston for 2010 Winter Classic (me)
PhinallyPhilly.com – NBC Wants the Flyers (me)
Projected Lineups
Remember that this is a ROUGH example of what the lineups could look like for the 2010 Winter Classic.
Philadelphia Flyers
Simon Gagne – Mike Richards – Ian Laperriere
Scott Hartnell – Jeff Carter – Mike Pyorala
Darroll Powe – Claude Giroux – Daniel Briere
Dan Carcillo – Jon Kalinski – Aaron Asham
Riley Cote
Kimmo Timonen – Chris Pronger
Braydon Coburn – Matt Carle
Ryan Parent – Randy Jones
Ray Emery
Brian Boucher
Boston Bruins
Milan Lucic – Marc Savard – Phil Kessel
Michael Ryder – David Krejci – Blake Wheeler
Marco Sturm – Patrice Bergeron – Mark Recchi
Chuck Kobasew – Steve Begin – Shawn Thornton
Byron Bitz
Zdeno Chara – Dennis Wideman
Andrew Ference – Aaron Ward
Mark Stuart – Johnny Boychuk
Tim Thomas
Dany Sabourin
