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Wrigley Field Community Skate
The community skate on the ice rink at Wrigley Field was perhaps the coolest thing I've ever done, and that's not overhyping it, either. The Cubs gave a tremendous opportunity to several hundred of us who live within a couple of miles of the ballpark, to be able to skate on the...
The NHL Had Me At Hello: Red Wings 6, Blackhawks 4
And still, no Chicago team has won a game at Wrigley Field since September 21, 2008. (I liked the touch the scoreboard operators used with the yellow numbers for scores of periods in progress, identical to the baseball procedure for innings still going on.) In front of 40,818 at...
NHL Winter Classic: Final Preparations!
Want to take a break from talking about the Cubs transactions from today? Here's what it looked like at Wrigley Field this afternoon as the final preparations for tomorrow's Winter Classic were going on. Incidentally, the two screens that are being put up so that people with limited views...
Why The NHL Is Hoping For A Cloudy Day On Thursday
Fortunately, it appears they'll get nearly ideal weather conditions: New Year's Day: A 20 percent chance of snow after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30. Wrigley Field photo taken via NHL Network webcam, Monday, December 29, 12:45 pm CST
NHL Winter Classic Rink Update: Friday Afternoon
With the roads fairly clear this afternoon, I stopped by Wrigley to see the progress they had made. The upright posts -- not sure what you'd call them -- where they slide the glass in, were up today. I'm not quite sure what the contraption is in photo #3, which is in the right field corner. The...
NHL Winter Classic Rink Update: Late Thursday, Closeups
Since a storm is headed this way, I thought I'd head over to Wrigley again this afternoon for some updated photos, especially after I saw the NHL Network video link on the post below, showing they had made considerable progress today. The lights were already on at 3 pm when I went there, so they...
NHL Winter Classic Rink Update: Live Video!
Now THIS is cool. The NHL Network is live-streaming the construction of the hockey rink. This ought to keep you entertained and informed for the afternoon, in case I can't get over there for photos.
NHL Winter Classic Rink Update: Wednesday Afternoon
It's much nicer in Chicago today. Well, relatively speaking, at least -- not snowing, and about 20 degrees with light winds. So I took the better camera to the ballpark future hockey arena to get some more photos. While I was there I ran into Brad, our usual gate chief in the bleachers. He told...
NHL Winter Classic Rink Update
I hadn't planned on stopping by Wrigley today, given that it has been puking snow all afternoon. But I had to go out for a while and my route took me past the ballpark (no, really -- I had to go that way). I didn't even bring my camera. But when I got close to the park -- this was just before 5...
NHL Winter Classic Construction Underway At Wrigley Field
Today, trucks arrived and began unloading the materials that will build the hockey rink for the Winter Classic to be played at Wrigley Field on January 1. In addition to the wood for the boards and the platform the ice will be created on, there were some portable lights delivered (not sure what...
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