College hockey played outdoors in the cold
Quickly .. thinks of the sports you watch outdoors. Is hockey one of them? Well, it will be next year when the University of Wisconsin takes on Ohio State University outdoors.
On February 11, 2006, the University of Wisconsin will take on Ohio State University in a hockey game outside. The game will be held at Lambeau Field in the north end of the football field.
Usually, hockey is played professionally and in college indoors. Here are two times it wasn't:
- NHL's first outdoor game, in Edmonton in 2003
- 2001 game between Michigan and Michigan State that set a world attendance record for hockey with 74,554 fans
The teams are expecting temperatures in the 20s.
