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The 2025 NHL Winter Classic will feature the Chicago Blackhawks hosting the St. Louis Blues at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the league announced on Wednesday.
There is no date or time yet for the game. The NCAA College Football Playoff quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. next season, which the NHL has typically avoided going up against in the past when scheduling the Winter Classic.
This will be the second outdoor game that will feature both teams. The Blues topped the Blackhawks, 4-1, in the 2017 Winter Classic at Busch Stadium.
The 2025 matchup will be the seventh outdoor game the Blackhawks will have participated in and the fifth Winter Classic with them involved. They last played at Wrigley Field for the 2009 Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings.
"The Friendly Confines" will be only the second venue to host multiple Winter Classics after Boston's Fenway Park (2010, 2023).
Connor Bedard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, has been a big draw on television this season. With the Blackhawks currently sitting dead-last in the league, they are primed to add another top-notch young talent to their roster ahead of next season.
As television rules everything, the Blackhawks have traditionally been a ratings draw, which is why they're back in the game, which will air on TNT. According to the Sun-Times, this season's Winter Classic, which featured the Seattle Kraken and Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, drew a lower rating than Bedard's NHL debut in October. It was the first time since the Winter Classic began as an annual event in 2008 that it had not been the most-watched regular season game.
Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium, Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline, Nevada, Pittsburgh's Heinz Field and New York's Yankee Stadium have hosted more than one outdoor game, which includes Winter Classics, Heritage Classics and Stadium Series games.
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will be added to that list after next week's Stadium Series games featuring the New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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