The NHL had postponed the starts of games and delayed play briefly during games because of weather on multiple occasions while playing outdoors 30 times from 2003-20.
For a while, it seemed like the NHL couldn t have asked for better for the Bridgestone NHL Outdoors Saturday. Snow had fallen overnight, and it felt like Christmas morning with the pines dusted in white and the grounds covered in a fresh, clean blanket.
Lake Tahoe NHL Outdoors rink wows Golden Knights, Avalanche
Vegas coach DeBoer calls it nicest I ve ever seen after practice for Saturday game by Dan Rosen @drosennhl / NHL.com Senior Writer
You have to see it to believe it.
Peter DeBoer said those words after the Vegas Golden Knights coach put the team through a fun, spirited pregame practice Friday on the NHL s makeshift rink built atop the 18th fairway at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, a slap shot away from Lake Tahoe with the Sierra Nevada in the distance. I think the pictures, as beautiful as they are, don t do it justice, DeBoer said. I grew up in Canada and I know anywhere in the Northeast of the United States or Minnesota, anywhere they can build outdoor rinks, there s always a competition on the street of whose dad can build a better rink. Every year you