{"id":945760,"date":"2026-10-25T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945760\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:50:12","slug":"nilan-skrudland-reminisce-about-canadiens-first-outdoor-game-in-frigid-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945760\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilan, Skrudland reminisce about Canadiens&#8217; first outdoor game in frigid Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens will play the Jets on Sunday in an outdoor Heritage Classic game at Winnipeg\u2019s Princess Auto Stadium (7 p.m., SN, TVA Sports).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this Hockey Inside\/Out Show bonus episode, former teammates and 1986 Stanley Cup champions Chris Nilan and Brian Skrudland share their memories of playing in outdoor games with the Canadiens\u2019 alumni team, including at the first Heritage Classic in Edmonton in 2003 in freezing conditions. Nilan tells the story about why he threw up on the bench during that alumni game.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/HIO-32-Rectangle-Sticker-Landscape-13.png\" alt=\"Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers with the Canadiens after the Heritage Classic Megastars Game on Nov. 22, 2003, at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.\" class=\"wp-image-100315369\"  \/>Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers with the Canadiens after the Heritage Classic Megastars Game on Nov. 22, 2003, at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. Jeff Vinnick \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel also discusses whether there are now too many outdoor games in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens will play the Jets on Sunday in an outdoor Heritage Classic game at Winnipeg\u2019s Princess Auto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-945760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}