2017 NHL Stadium Series
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| Date | February 25, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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| Arena | Heinz Field | |||||||||||||||
| City | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 67,318 | |||||||||||||||
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The 2017 NHL Stadium Series (officially the 2017 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series for sponsorship reasons) was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game played outdoors, part of the Stadium Series of games held at football or baseball stadiums. The Philadelphia Flyers played against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 25, 2017.
This was the only game in the Stadium Series scheduled during the 2016–17 NHL season (as opposed to multiple games in 2016). The game was played to help mark the 50th anniversary of the Expansion of 1967, in which the Flyers and the Penguins, along with four other teams, were formed to double the league's size. This Flyers–Penguins matchup was originally considered for the 2017 NHL Winter Classic in January, but scheduling conflicts with the National Football League in both cities, along with the belief that Beaver Stadium (a neutral site venue mentioned as a potential site for a Flyers–Penguins outdoor contest) was not properly equipped to host an event during the winter, led to plans for a matchup being moved to a later date as a Stadium Series game in February.
An announced attendance of 67,318 made the game one of the most attended outdoor NHL games in history.
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