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The South should celebrate its hockey heritage at Tropicana Field

The Heritage Classic is a series of outdoor games played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Three games have been played in the series [...] To date, the match-ups have been exclusively between Canadian teams and the event serves as a counterpart to the Winter Classic ...

Uh, excuse me... Hi! I couldn't stop thinking of heritage and applying the phrase to ice hockey in Florida, or more specifically the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan market. The more I thought about it, the more fitting and applicable to a series like the Heritage Classic the Tampa Bay Lightning happen to be.