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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
What about the Skydome? Would they be able to make that work?
BMO field is super ugly, imo. At the very least, it's quite 'meh'. Not a great place for a Winter Classic at all.
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Skydome can't be opened in the winter. Unlike some of the newer retractable roof stadiums, which are designed as open-air stadiums that can be covered when the weather is bad, Skydome is an indoor stadium that can be opened when weather conditions are perfect.
We saw what you get when you play an "outdoor" game under a roof in Vancouver. I doubt the league wants to repeat that.
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Originally Posted by Canada 02
Isn't Toronto/Leafs hosting the World Juniors at the same time? Doesn't make sense to have this overlap with what will likely be the medal round of the WJC
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It won't be the medal round. January 1 is usually an off day for the World Juniors because the round-robin ends on New Year's Eve and the medal round starts on January 2. The New Year's Eve game will likely be Canada-US (maybe Russia) at the ACC.
If they can work things out, I wouldn't be surprised to see them try to have the Canada-US game on NYE at BMO. Buffalo is hosting the World Juniors in 2017-18 and they've already announced that the US's NYE game will be outdoors for that one.