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Months after Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé performed to sellout crowds at MetLife Stadium, the NHL goals to do the identical with backtoback outside video games this winter.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.: Months after Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé performed to sellout crowds at MetLife Stadium, the NHL goals to do the identical with back-to-back outside video games this winter.
The league hopes the Meadowlands (Hockey’s Version) is its subsequent large hit.
The New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers on Feb. 17 after which the New York Rangers and Islanders on Feb. 18 are set to play the NHL’s fortieth and forty first regular-season outside video games.
“They’ve all been sold out, and we expect these two to be no exception,” Commissioner Gary Bettman stated Wednesday at a information convention selling the 2024 Stadium Series video games.
Bettman stated the NHL is on observe to set an attendance document this season, and that doesn’t even take into consideration the 82,500 followers anticipated at every of the video games on the residence of the NFL’s Jets and Giants. It’s not fairly the gang of 100,000-plus that took within the Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium on Jan. 1, 2014, however mixed it may very well be the best-attended weekend in league historical past.
“Think about this: Over two days, we’re going to have 160,000 people watching hockey,” NHL senior government vice chairman and chief content material officer Steve Mayer stated. “That’s crazy.”
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy stated the NHL occasion is going on at a peak time for the stadium, which lately hosted three nights of Swift’s “The Eras Tour” and has been within the NFL highlight for the ill-fated Jets debut of quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Swift’s look when Travis Kelce and the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs visited.
“It’s coming at a great sweet-spot time for us,” Murphy stated, additionally referring to final weekend’s Jets-Giants recreation and different concert events. “Just one success after another.”
Murphy hopes the outside video games beget one other win for the state and stadium, which already has been chosen as a venue for the 2026 Men’s World Cup. He sees the February weekend as one other audition of types for officers making the choice on the place to stage the soccer event’s championship recreation.
“We’re pitching like heck to get the finals,” Murphy stated. “Too early to tell, but the success of something like this is yet another datapoint that outsiders can look at and say, ‘These folks know what they’re doing.’ This is as good as it gets in terms of getting up on the wire, no net, all the lights on you and just executing flawlessly.”
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