As I mentioned earlier, this game was one that many fans were looking more forward to than the Winter Classic itself. The rosters for both teams are a who’s who of childhood heroes and also Ben Eager and Dan Carcillo. In case you missed the line-ups for today’s game, here you go:
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It’s easy to break this game down into an “old dude does this, guy who looks like he could still be playing does that” run-down, but where is the fun in any of that?
Mike Liut and Darren Pang were the starting goaltenders.