Along the south shore of picturesque Lake Tahoe, the Colorado Avalanche was set to play an outdoor afternoon affair at the foot of snow-capped mountains and beside North America s largest alpine lake.The beautiful, bluebird day turned out to be to much for the manmade rink too handle, and the contest against the Vegas Golden Knights was interrupted due to challenging ice conditions resulting from extreme sun.Colorado rolled with the punches though and earned a 3-2 victory against Vegas on Saturday evening when the final whistle blew more than 10 hours after the initial puck drop.
GOALTENDING BATTLE
Colorado: Philipp Grubauer started an outdoor game for the second consecutive season and stopped 27 shots.
Vegas: Marc-Andre Fleury played in his third outdoor game and allowed three goals on 39 shots.
STAT OF THE NIGHT
Defensemen Bowen Byram, Devon Toews and Conor Timmins all made their NHL outdoor debuts in the contest. Prior to the game, 18 Avalanche players had participated in an NHL outdoor game, led by Brandon Saad and Nazem Kadri who both played in their fourth NHL contests in the open air on Saturday.
It was the third regular-season outdoor game for the Avalanche, with its previous such games being the 2016 Stadium Series at Coors Field in Denver against the Detroit Red Wings and the 2020 Stadium Series at the U.S. Air Force Academy versus the Los Angeles Kings. Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon are the only players to participate in all three of Colorado s outdoor games.
By Paula Peterson
STATELINE, Nev. - It has been nonstop activity at Edgewood Tahoe for the past two weeks in preparation for this weekend s NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe. The scene on Wednesday looked like the major event it will be - televised coverage of a unique major sporting event.
Truckloads of equipment and the refrigerated ice truck are parked next to the 18th fairway at Edgewood. The ice is done. Towering lights are in place, and banners and signage ready for television and a snow machine is even set up.
There are two enclosed rink-side chalets, one for broadcasters, hockey officials, team personnel, referees, coaches, statistic people, tech support and video reply that is being sent back to Toronto. The other is a locker room replicating what players find on their home ice. They have bikes, washrooms, weight room, and therapy area. The only thing not added were the showers, but the NHL figured the players hotel rooms were just across the street
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The National Hockey League (NHL) just announced some local features to this weekend s NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe™ at Edgewood Tahoe featuring front line healthcare workers, local Olympians and a 21-year-old local singer to start off the two-day event by singing the U.S. national anthem.