The NHL’s Winter Classic is coming to Miami, marking the league’s first-ever outdoor game in Florida, the league said.<\/p>\n
The NHL announced it will host the 2026 NHL Winter Classic<\/a> at loanDepot park in Miami on Jan. 2, 2026, featuring a matchup between the Florida Panthers<\/a>, the reigning Stanley Cup champions, and New York Rangers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n There will also be a full day of fan festivities<\/a> leading up to puck drop.<\/p>\n Those festivities will include the 2026 Enterprise NHL PreGame, an outdoor fan festival highlighted by a special appearance from the Stanley Cup<\/a>. The event will run from 2 to 8 p.m. ET outside the Miami Marlins’ ballpark<\/a> and will be open exclusively to Winter Classic ticket holders, according to organizers.<\/p>\n Fans attending the pregame can expect family-friendly hockey interactives, giveaways, food, a concert and opportunities to see the league’s most iconic trophy up close.<\/p>\n The Panthers-Rangers matchup will be the first NHL outdoor game ever staged in Florida and the first of two scheduled for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n How to watch the 2026 NHL Winter Classic<\/p>\n The Florida Panthers vs. New York Rangers Winter Classic will air at 8 p.m. ET on TNT, HBO Max, and truTV in the U.S., and on Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.<\/p>\n LoanDepot park is located at 1680 NW 5th Street in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL’s Winter Classic is coming to Miami, marking the league’s first-ever outdoor game in Florida, the league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4386,123,125,124,16996,5691,6503],"class_list":{"0":"post-88187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-stanley-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88187","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=88187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}