Blackhawks -Red Wings to play New Year's Day at Wrigley Field

[underpants]

The scrapbook of Wrigley Field sports memories is about to expand when the Blackhawks face the Detroit Red Wings on New Year's Day.

"It's a baseball field of dreams, and now the hockey guys get to take it over," said NBC sports producer Sam Flood, whose network will air the second outdoor regular-season game in NHL history.

Bob Costas will host the coverage, joined by play-by-play man Mike Emrick, analyst Ed Olczyk, studio analyst Mike Milbury and rinkside reporter s Pierre McGuire and Darren Pang. Flood is a former captain of the Williams College hockey team.

"The most important cool tool we have is the airplane again; you never see a hockey game from that perspective," Flood said. "But this isn't about toys, it's about the event. We have a ton of cameras. We have cameras everywhere — from high up in the right-field bleachers, to a camera in the scoreboard, to rink-level cameras, to a roving camera that can go to some of the great parties on the rooftops across the street. This is a game you want to shoot wide so you see the whole spectacle."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/chi-16-mitchell-chicagodec16,0,2100963.column

[LisaM]

1. The NHL channel is playing an ad for this

Where they play "Take Me Out To the Ball Game". Very cute.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I'll be watching it!

C-A-P-S, Caps, CAPS, C A P S!!!