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The NHL successfully pulled off its Winter Classic in Miami, but the Stadium Series game in Tampa is not expected to have the same atmosphere to that event. Getty Images <\/p>\nThe NHL successfully pulled off its Winter Classic in Miami, but the Stadium Series game in Tampa is not expected to have the same atmosphere to that event. Getty Images <\/p>\n
After the NHL successfully pulled off its Winter Classic<\/a> in Miami, President of Content & Events Steve Mayer \u201ccautioned about expecting the same environment\u201d for the Stadium Series in Tampa, according to Eduardo Encina of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The NHL is moving its operation to Tampa for the Bruins-Lightning game Feb. 1 at Raymond James Stadium, but Mayer said it will \u201clook completely different.\u201d Encina wrote it is \u201cclear it will have a heavy Tampa theme centered around Gasparilla.\u201d The rink will be \u201cbuilt under a tent structure that will protect the ice until game day,\u201d and a \u201c6 \u00bd-hour deconstruction process will commence that afternoon to unveil the rink for the game.\u201d Mayer said the transition from Miami to Tampa has \u201cworked out really well.\u201d He added, \u201cTampa is just really exciting. They\u2019re so different because of the roof (in Miami) and then we\u2019re building a roof (in Tampa).\u201d Mayer said that the \u201confield look in Tampa will be unveiled at the last minute\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 1\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL successfully pulled off its Winter Classic in Miami, but the Stadium Series game in Tampa is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54741,5691,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-106470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fan-experience","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}