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Winter Clasic Leftovers: Legends Play Hockey at Fenway

Posted: January 4, 2010
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Author: Adam
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Filed under: Uncategorized
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Tags: Bruins, Fenway, Legends Classic

For the past three years the NHL has held a regular season hockey game on new Year’s Day in an outdoor venue. This year Boston was lucky enough to have a turn making history at The Winter Classic as an approximate 33,000 fans watched the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers in over time at Fenway Park (check out the full story of the game). While the rink is set up at Fenway they held some peripheral events such as BU vs. BC, a public open skate (which I waited in line for, to no avail), and the “Legends Classic” exhibition game played by former Bruins players and a couple special guests.

As I had little interest is shelling out a few hundred bucks for the actual Winter Classic game, I went to the $10 Legends game with some friends and got the once in a lifetime opportunity to watch a hockey game played at Fenway Park.

Reasons why this was cool

I got to see Cam Neely (and other hockey greats) play at the same venue as Ted Williams
I threw a snowball at Fenway Park
It was only 10 bucks
You could pick any section of the park to sit in as the laid back nature of the event made it acceptable to relocate to empty seats closer to the action
The announcers were pretty entertaining
My beer stayed nice and cold

Check out some footage I got of the park and some shots of the game

For a play by play check out the NESN blog