NHL's Winter Classic Has Its Critic

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More than 68,000 people witnessed it in person. Nearly 5 million people watched it on television. Dan Shaughnessy never wants to see it again.

Shaughnessy, a Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated columnist, has cooled on the idea of outdoor hockey after attending the latest NHL Winter Classic in unseasonably balmy Pittsburgh on New Year's Day. Shaughnessy admits to being all for previous Winter Classics staged in Buffalo, Boston and Chicago. "It just wasn't the same last Saturday night as I watched the Penguins and Capitals slushing around on soft, watery ice at night in the middle of Heinz Field," wrote Shaughnessy earlier this week at si.com. "The Caps beat the Penguins, 3-1, but this was not what the league had in mind."

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