Mary Clarke

For my hockey bucket list, I’m going to say: the inevitable Flyers-Penguins Winter Classic at Beaver Stadium.

I’ve been campaigning for this one since they started the Winter Classic series. A mid-state matchup between one of the greatest rivalries in sports in the greatest college football stadium in the country is an event the NHL shouldn’t have been able to resist, but they have — giving deserved Western Conference teams time to shine instead. As a current Penn State student, I’ve witnessed first hand the hungry hockey market Happy Valley has, which has helped turned the hockey team into one of the top sporting programs to watch at the school. There are certainly a few bumps in the road — can the 105,000-plus capacity be filled, are there enough hotels for media and fans, etc — but it has the makings of an incredible experience that the NHL shouldn’t pass up.

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