The NHL has been hosting outdoor hockey games for years with the Winter Classic, but the 2021 game was canceled back in October because of limitations related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those temperatures aren't conducive to finding ice outside. And the high game-time temperature for any of the previous outdoor games in NHL history, the league said, was 65 for a game in Denver in ...

OK. I have to talk about outdoor hockey games -- usually, I love them -- “It’s how the game was meant to be played,” as they say.

After the cold of Michigan, the NHL will head to Los Angeles, putting an ice rink amidst the palm trees in Chavez Ravine for the game between the Kings and the Ducks at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 25.

The NHL is going down under for the first time, with the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes set to play in Australia in September. The trip announced Tuesday is the league’s first foray in… ...

Florida Panthers goaltender Spencer Knight (30) celebrates with the team after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in a shootout at an NHL hockey game, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. MIAMI ...

Many Utah Hockey Club players’ careers started on an outdoor rink. Ian Cole’s dad built a backyard sheet for him as a kid in Michigan; Nick Bjugstad used to beg his parents to go to the Happy ...