On Monday morning, Cyril Leeder went on TSN 1200 and said "There's really only one option we've been working on and that's to try to find a way to make that game work on Parliament Hill. (TD Place) is not an option we’ve looked at, at all, in any detail and we’ve been really focused on the Hill."
It’s a bold strategy, and hosting an outdoor game on Parliament Hill would set the new gold standard for an outdoor venue. But as the CBC reported this morning, the list of rules for events on the Hill is long and the Winter Classic would break a large number of them.