\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe NHL is going to Jerry World for a hockey game.The league announced Monday that the Dallas Stars will host the 2027 Stadium Series at the home of the NFL’s Cowboys in Arlington, Texas. The opponent for the game next season at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 20, 2027, will be announced at a later date.\u201cAt the end of the day, we have to fill a stadium,\u201d NHL president of content and events Steve Mayer told The Associated Press by phone. \u201cWe\u2019ve never not filled one. And we just became more and more confident that, if we went back, especially to a very unique environment \u2014 one of the coolest and biggest and greatest stadiums in the world \u2014 we think we\u2019re going to get people\u2019s attention.\u201dThis is set to be the second NHL game at a football stadium in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex after the Stars played the Nashville Predators in the Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2020. That drew a crowd of more than 85,000.”Pretty immediately we just said we\u2019ve got to go back soon,” Mayer said. \u201cWe had success beyond anything we could have ever dreamed of. To fill the Cotton Bowl just absolutely showed us that Dallas fans are into this, will come in droves and it was awesome.\u201dConversations with the Cowboys continued over the past several years, and the Stars made three consecutive trips to the Western Conference final. AT&T Stadium has a capacity of 85,000 but can get past 100,000 with standing room only, putting the league’s record attendance of 105,491 from Michigan Stadium in 2014 within reach, if everything comes together correctly.”We\u2019re going into this with our eyes wide open, and that is absolutely a possibility,” Mayer said. \u201cWe\u2019re very aware of the capacity, and standing room is a thing. It\u2019s actually unique to that stadium. I would say that we would have a chance.\u201dNHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been advocating for a game there since the stadium opened in 2009. Jones called it \u201canother great example of the vision we\u2019ve always had for what AT&T Stadium could be beyond football.\u201dThis will be the third NHL outdoor-ish game since 2024. The Seattle Kraken hosted the Winter Classic that New Year’s Day at the Mariners’ ballpark with a retractable roof, and the back-to-back defending champion Florida Panthers are set to face the New York Rangers on Jan. 2 at the Marlins’ stadium that offers the same protection from the elements.Mayer said it has not been a conscious decision but also added that it helps the two-week-plus rink-building process get done without weather interruptions.”It just takes that entire risk out of the equation,” Mayer said. \u201cWe are going to open the roof on game day. For us, that\u2019s a nonstarter.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The NHL is going to Jerry World for a hockey game.<\/p>\n
The league announced Monday that the Dallas Stars will host the 2027 Stadium Series at the home of the NFL’s Cowboys in Arlington, Texas. The opponent for the game next season at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 20, 2027, will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, we have to fill a stadium,\u201d NHL president of content and events Steve Mayer told The Associated Press by phone. \u201cWe\u2019ve never not filled one. And we just became more and more confident that, if we went back, especially to a very unique environment \u2014 one of the coolest and biggest and greatest stadiums in the world \u2014 we think we\u2019re going to get people\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is set to be the second NHL game at a football stadium in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex after the Stars played the Nashville Predators in the Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2020. That drew a crowd of more than 85,000.<\/p>\n
“Pretty immediately we just said we\u2019ve got to go back soon,” Mayer said. \u201cWe had success beyond anything we could have ever dreamed of. To fill the Cotton Bowl just absolutely showed us that Dallas fans are into this, will come in droves and it was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Conversations with the Cowboys continued over the past several years, and the Stars made three consecutive trips to the Western Conference final. AT&T Stadium has a capacity of 85,000 but can get past 100,000 with standing room only, putting the league’s record attendance of 105,491 from Michigan Stadium in 2014 within reach, if everything comes together correctly.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re going into this with our eyes wide open, and that is absolutely a possibility,” Mayer said. \u201cWe\u2019re very aware of the capacity, and standing room is a thing. It\u2019s actually unique to that stadium. I would say that we would have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been advocating for a game there since the stadium opened in 2009. Jones called it \u201canother great example of the vision we\u2019ve always had for what AT&T Stadium could be beyond football.\u201d<\/p>\n
This will be the third NHL outdoor-ish game since 2024. The Seattle Kraken hosted the Winter Classic that New Year’s Day at the Mariners’ ballpark with a retractable roof, and the back-to-back defending champion Florida Panthers are set to face the New York Rangers on Jan. 2 at the Marlins’ stadium that offers the same protection from the elements.<\/p>\n
Mayer said it has not been a conscious decision but also added that it helps the two-week-plus rink-building process get done without weather interruptions.<\/p>\n
“It just takes that entire risk out of the equation,” Mayer said. \u201cWe are going to open the roof on game day. For us, that\u2019s a nonstarter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL is going to Jerry World for a hockey game.The league announced Monday that the Dallas Stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21696,150,3680,8079,8052,21697,102,113,104,103,1115,21698,19501,21699,1116,21711,1510,21715,2638,21714,21712,5044,21713,2484,21701,21702,21703,21704,21705,21706,21707,21700,21717,154,21708,21716,21709,21710],"class_list":["post-34165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2027-stadium-series","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-texas","tag-att-stadium","tag-cotton-bowl","tag-cowboys-owner","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallas-fort-worth-metroplex","tag-day","tag-gary-bettman","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-game","tag-home","tag-jan","tag-jerry-jones","tag-jerry-world","tag-jsnd","tag-league","tag-mayer","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-attendance-record","tag-nhl-events","tag-nhl-fans","tag-nhl-history","tag-nhl-in-texas","tag-nhl-milestones","tag-nhl-outdoor-game","tag-nhl-stadium-series","tag-retractable-roof","tag-sports","tag-stadium-series","tag-stadium-series-game","tag-steve-mayer","tag-winter-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}