
After a whirlwind few months of planning and weeks of construction, gameday for the first of two outdoor NHL contests on the southern shores of Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada, has arrived.
The Colorado Avalanche (8-4-1, 17 points, third in West) will face the Vegas Golden Knights (10-3-1, 21 points, second in West) on Saturday. On Sunday, the Philadelphia Flyers (8-3-3, 19 points, second in East) take on the Boston Bruins (10-3-2, 22 points, first in East).
The games will take place on a rink built on the 18th fairway of the golf course at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, which hosts the American Century Championship, a celebrity golf tournament, every summer.
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The Golden Knights-Avalanche game will be shown Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on NBC. The Flyers-Bruins game will shown Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. The second game was moved up an hour because of predictions of bright sunshine during the game.
The two games can be streamed on NBC Sports.
Mike Tirico (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Brian Boucher (‘Inside-the-Glass’ analyst), Rutledge Wood (on-site reporter in Lake Tahoe).
Saturday, it will be 32 and partly cloudy when the game starts at noon local time, according to weather.com. Sunday, it will be 38 and sunny when that game starts at 11 a.m. local time.
The Golden Knights are making their outdoor debut. The Avalanche are 0-2, the Bruins are 2-1 and the Flyers have gone 1-2-1. The Bruins beat the Flyers 2-1 in overtime at the 2010 Winter Classic in Boston’s Fenway Park.
