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11 photos of a picturesque 2024 NHL Winter Classic in Seattle

These scenes at the 2024 NHL Winter Classic in Seattle will be hard to beat.

It’s been 16 years since the first NHL Winter Classic and the views have yet to disappoint.

On Monday, with the calendar now officially moved to 2024, the NHL’s two newest teams in the Seattle Kraken and Vegas Golden Knights faced off in the league’s annual Winter Classic. As the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Golden Knights went all out as they entered T-Mobile Park in Elvis costumes while the Kraken went with orange overalls in a reference to the workers of Pike Place Market.

While for some, the NHL’s Winter Classic might be a trite affair, their uniqueness washed away with time. However, for others — especially those with local ties to the game — the event is a fun celebration of the beauty of hockey. The Winter Classic itself might not be the most fun hockey to watch, but no one can deny the gorgeous vistas and unique aesthetics of the event.

With events underway in Seattle, here are the best photos of the gorgeous 2024 NHL Winter Classic in T-Mobile Park.

The Golden Knights arrived to the 2024 NHL Winter Classic dressed as Elvis in the most Vegas entrance

The Golden Knights brought a bit of Vegas with them to the Winter Classic.

The Vegas Golden Knights brought a little slice of their city with them to the 2024 NHL Winter Classic with the most extra entrance possible.

With the calendar now flipped to 2024, the annual NHL Winter Classic is here and this year, the league’s two newest teams — the Golden Knights and Seattle Kraken — are set to take center stage. The views during the Winter Classic always impress and Seattle should be no different this year, but the Golden Knights kicked things off early with a hilarious tribute to their home city.

Ahead of the game itself, the Golden Knights arrived to T-Mobile Park in Seattle dressed to the nines … in Elvis outfits!

Yes, even the King himself was able to make the trip to the 2024 NHL Winter Classic. Vegas no doubt wins the outfit battle here after the St. Louis Blues wore beach attire in frigid Minnesota a few years back.

Marshawn Lynch previewed the Seattle Kraken’s Winter Classic jersey and hilariously did not want to give it back

Marshawn Lynch is forever a national treasure.

Marshawn Lynch must be protected at all costs.

A few years back, Lynch gave us one of the best mic’d up moments that TV has ever offered (in my totally biased opinion) when cameras caught him in a wholesome exchange with Richard Sherman about giving out turkeys during Thanksgiving. “Trying to restore my community!” Perfection.

The legend is back as the Seattle Kraken enlisted Lynch’s help in promoting their new Winter Classic jersey. There’s just one catch.

The team let him preview the gear but pranked him by throwing his old playing number on it, telling him it was one-of-a-kind and insinuating that it was for promotional purposes only.

In true Marshawn fashion, he hilariously gave them absolute grief over it.

It’s so bitter cold at the 2022 NHL Winter Classic that players’ beards and mustaches have frozen over

It’s cold out there in Minnesota!!!

If you haven’t heard, it’s pretty cold at the 2022 NHL Winter Classic in Minnesota. So cold, in fact, that it’s broken league records for how frigid it is.

At puck drop between the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues, the weather hit at least minus-8 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the coldest outdoor game in NHL history. Not only that, before the game, the cold weather didn’t stop the Blues from showing up dressed to the nines… in beach gear.

So yeah, it’s pretty cold out there in Minnesota tonight. So cold, in fact, that players’ facial hair is collecting ice and freezing to their faces! Yes, seriously, players on both the Wild and Blues were seen with icicles on their beards and mustaches during warmups, which seemingly weren’t very warm at all.

Look, the NHL’s outdoor games may have overstayed their welcome, but you don’t get moments like these during regular games now do you?

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The Blues arrived at the NHL Winter Classic in beach gear and it was glorious

The Winter Classic more like the Summer Classic.

It’s going to be cold during the 2022 NHL Winter Classic in Minnesota. Likely historically so.

But do the St. Louis Blues care about such silly concepts as temperature and weather? Apparently not!

On Saturday, before puck drop at Target Field for the Winter Classic, the Blues arrived at the stadium wearing outfits that were more appropriate for a trip to the beach instead of the snowy, frigid climate of Minneapolis in winter. The Blues adorned themselves in baseball caps, sunglasses, swim trunks, polo shirts, and flip flops, uncaring of the minus-5 degree Fahrenheit temperature in which they were walking.

It’s a glorious sight to behold, if only for it’s absolute ridiculousness.

Look, I appreciate the commitment to the bit here from the Blues, but god that has to be cold. Thankfully, during the game St. Louis will be dressed more appropriately for skating around in such frosty weather.

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The 2022 NHL Winter Classic in Minnesota could be the coldest outdoor game in league history

It’s gonna be a cold one in Minnesota.

It’s going to be cold in Minnesota this weekend for the 2022 NHL Winter Classic. Possibly historically so.

Despite all the game postponements across the league due to COVID-19, the NHL’s marquee annual outdoor event is still scheduled to take place on New Year’s Day in the evening between the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues at Target Field. Previously, Minnesota hosted a 2016 Stadium Series game at TCF Bank Stadium between the Wild and Chicago Blackhawks, but this will be the first time the city has hosted the Winter Classic in full.

And, as expected of Minnesota winters, it’s going to be frigid cold on Saturday. As of Thursday’s forecast, the high for New Year’s Day will be minus-3 Fahrenheit with a low of minus-9, potentially making the 2022 Winter Classic the coldest outdoor game in NHL history.

It’s going to be so cold in Minnesota that the league will have to heat the ice to keep the rink in optimal condition. Not only that, the benches and penalty boxes will be heated as well to keep players comfortable. As for the fans, of which a full house of nearly 40,000 are expected to attend, hand warmers will be provided, alongside additional heated areas in Target Field.

The frigid temperatures in Minnesota this weekend could very well eclipse the NHL’s coldest outdoor game on record, the 2003 Heritage Classic between the Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens where temperatures dipped to zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Knowing local Minnesotans, however, Saturday’s game will be just another winter evening in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

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