By Paula Peterson
STATELINE, Nev. - It has been nonstop activity at Edgewood Tahoe for the past two weeks in preparation for this weekend s NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe. The scene on Wednesday looked like the major event it will be - televised coverage of a unique major sporting event.
Truckloads of equipment and the refrigerated ice truck are parked next to the 18th fairway at Edgewood. The ice is done. Towering lights are in place, and banners and signage ready for television and a snow machine is even set up.
There are two enclosed rink-side chalets, one for broadcasters, hockey officials, team personnel, referees, coaches, statistic people, tech support and video reply that is being sent back to Toronto. The other is a locker room replicating what players find on their home ice. They have bikes, washrooms, weight room, and therapy area. The only thing not added were the showers, but the NHL figured the players hotel rooms were just across the street
The National Hockey League (NHL) today announced its game day plans for NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe™, the picturesque event featuring two regular-season outdoor games played at Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline, Nev., Feb. 20-21. With the Lake Tahoe shoreline as its backdrop, selfless members of the Tahoe Community will be honored before the Colorado Avalanche face the Vegas Golden Knights in the Bridgestone NHL Outdoors Saturday™ on Feb. 20.
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STATELINE, Nev. Lake Tahoe Olympians, first responders and frontline workers will all be featured this weekend during the National Hockey League’s outdoor games at Stateline.
The Vegas Golden Knights and Colorado Avalanche will drop the puck at noon Saturday, Feb. 20, and the Boston Bruins will battle the Philadelphia Flyers at 11 a.m. next day. Sunday’s game was pushed back an hour by officials on Thursday afternoon due to a forecast of sunlight with no cloud cover in the interest of player safety. Both games will be nationally broadcast on NBC, Sportsnet and TVA sports.
Tahoe Olympic gold medalist Maddie Bowman will be featured before Sunday’s game.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The National Hockey League (NHL) just announced some local features to this weekend s NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe™ at Edgewood Tahoe featuring front line healthcare workers, local Olympians and a 21-year-old local singer to start off the two-day event by singing the U.S. national anthem.
New Ben & Jerry’s flavor touts Kaepernick’s racial justice fight
Modified: 12/13/2020 8:36:37 PM
Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is honoring football quarterback Colin Kaepernick with a new flavor blending his civil rights activism and non-dairy, vegan appetite.
“Change the Whirled” a mix of caramel sunflower butter, fudge chips, graham crackers and chocolate cookies will raise money for Kaepernick’s “courageous work to confront systemic oppression and to stop police violence against Black and Brown people,” the company said in a statement Thursday.
Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, sparked headlines in 2016 by kneeling in protest during the national anthem to shed light on police brutality against minorities.