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"Wagon Wheel"
Song by Old Crow Medicine Show
from the album O.C.M.S.
Released
February 24, 2004
Recorded
2003 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee
Genre
Country
Americana
folk
bluegrass
Length
3:52
Label
Nettwerk
Songwriter(s)
Bob Dylan
Ketch Secor[1]
Producer(s)
David Rawlings
Music video
"Wagon Wheel" on YouTube
"Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show.[2] Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years later. Old Crow Medicine Show's final version was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013.[3]
The song has been covered numerous times, notably by Nathan Carter in 2012 and Darius Rucker in 2013. Rucker's version reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA in March 2014.[4]
Contents
1 Content
2 Background and writing
3 Creative rights
4 Popularity
5 Certification
6 Nathan Carter version
6.1 Track listing
6.2 Music video
6.3 Chart performance
7 Darius Rucker version
7.1 Backstory
7.2 Genre
7.3 Critical reception
7.4 Music video
7.5 Chart performance
7.6 Charts and certifications
7.7 Weekly charts
7.8 Year-end charts
7.9 Certifications
8 Other covers
9 In popular culture
10 References
11 External links
Content[edit]
The song describes a hitchhiking journey south along the eastern coast of the United States, from New England in the northeast, through Roanoke, Virginia, with the intended destination of Raleigh, North Carolina, where the narrator hopes to see his lover. As the narrator is walking south of Roanoke, he catches a ride with a trucker who is traveling from Philadelphia through Virginia westward toward the Cumberland Gap and Johnson City, Tennessee.
Old Crow Medicine Show's version of the song is in 2/4 time signature, with an approximate tempo of 76 half notes per minute. It uses the I–V–vi–IV pattern in the key of A major, with the main chord pattern of A–E–F♯m–D.
Background and writing[edit]
I'd gotten a (Bob) Dylan bootleg in like ninth grade and I let (band co-founder) Ketch (Secor) listen to it, and he wrote the verses because Bob kind of mumbles them and that was it. We've been playing that song since we were like 17, and it's funny because we've never met Dylan, but the song is technically co-written by Bob Dylan. What's great about "Wagon Wheel" is that it has grown organically. The popularity of it was all based on word of mouth. There was no radio airplay for it. We made a music video for it, but it wasn't "November Rain" or anything. No one was like, 'Oh my God, what's this video about?' And 16 years later, it went gold, then Darius Rucker cut it.[5]
Chris "Critter" Fuqua
"Wagon Wheel" is composed of two different parts. The chorus and melody for the song come from a demo recorded by Bob Dylan during the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid sessions in February 1973.[6][7] Although never officially released, the Dylan song was released on a bootleg, usually named after the chorus and its refrain, "Rock Me Mama". Dylan left the song an unfinished sketch.
Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show wrote verses for the song around Dylan's original chorus (and melody):[8]
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me[9]
Chris "Critter" Fuqua, Secor's school friend and future bandmate, first brought home a Bob Dylan bootleg from a family trip to London containing the rough outtake called "Rock Me, Mama".[10] Not "so much a song as a sketch, crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out",[11] the tune kept going through Secor's mind.
A few months later, while attending Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and "feeling homesick for the South," he added verses about "hitchhiking his way home full of romantic notions put in his head by the Beat poets and, most of all, Dylan." Secor's verses tell "the story of a man who travels from New England, through Philadelphia, PA, and Roanoke, VA, down the eastern coast of the United States, ending up in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hopes to see his lover."[12]
The Secor lyrics contain a geographic impossibility: heading "west from the Cumberland Gap" to Johnson City, Tennessee "you'd have to go east."[13] As Secor explains: "I got some geography wrong, but I still sing it that way. I just wanted the word 'west' in there. 'West' has got more power than 'east.'"[13]
Bob Dylan performing in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Northern Spain, during the Azkena Rock Festival on June 26, 2010.
Creative rights[edit]
Secor saw the Dylan contribution as "an outtake of something he had mumbled out on one of those tapes. I sang it all around the country from about 17 to 26, before I ever even thought, 'Oh, I better look into this.'"[14] When Secor sought copyright on the song in 2003 to release it on O.C.M.S. in (2004), he discovered Dylan credited the phrase "Rock me, mama" to bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording. As Secor says: "In a way, it's taken something like 85 years to get completed."[13] Secor and Dylan signed a co-writing agreement, and share copyright[15] on the song; agreeing to a "50–50 split in authorship."[16]
Secor recalls that, "I met (Dylan's son) Jakob, and Jakob said it made sense that I was a teenager when I did that, because no one in their 30s would have the guts to try to write a Bob Dylan song."[13]
Popularity[edit]
It sort of exists separately from the world of things that are on the radio. "Wagon Wheel" has made it around the camp fires and the jam sessions and the parking lot scenes, in a way that songs of this decade or the last decade tend not to. When you go to a drum circle at a camp fire, you'll hear songs that are 40 years old that a kid with a hemp leash just learned, like "The Weight" by The Band, and then you're going to hear "Wagon Wheel."[13]
Ketch Secor
As Old Crow Medicine Show's signature song,[17] "Wagon Wheel" is in some ways bigger than the group itself[18] — even though the song's origins predate formation of the musical act. The song was an early entry in the group's catalog when it formed a few years after Secor penned it.
The group reportedly performed the song at the Station Inn in Nashville in 2001, as part of a series of songs commemorating Bob Dylan's 60th birthday. The song has become extremely popular since its inclusion on Old Crow Medicine Show's major label debut, O.C.M.S. in 2004, although the song appeared in an earlier form on the now out-of-print EP Troubles Up and Down the Road in 2001. The group's version of the song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013.[3] To celebrate they released a limited edition 7" vinyl record of the song with "'All Night Long' Live At The Station Inn" (2003) on the B-side.[19]
Asked in mid-2008 if he gets "sick of playing it every night," Secor responded: "I don't mind playing it every night. I like to see what it does to people, and it's nice to have something that's guaranteed, especially when you're shuffling through new material."[20]
This "catchy country-infused sing-along" has "taken on the status of 'Free Bird'"—"in that it has become a bar room staple that drunks love to loudly request at every show, regardless of who the band is"[21][22] John Cranford with music label Swampfire Records—who organize a regular jam session on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina called Swampfire Sessions—says "It has become our generation's 'Freebird.'"[23]
Lately, it's been open season on "Wagon Wheel," which has become the acoustic musician's "Freebird," one of the very few songs that people actually know well enough to find it funny to request.[24]
—  The Portland Phoenix
The song has become such a popular cover song at musical gatherings, venues and events that some discourage its performance. At the Swampfire Sessions, Cranford states: "We banned it. (We) literally put signs up that said 'Absolutely No Wagon Wheel.'" "Man, some of us hate that song," he said. "Others play it all the time." Cranford, who used to play "Wagon Wheel" on request, quit doing so after Rucker's cover. "This song was great when Dylan wrote it and Old Crow played it, but once Darius Rucker flooded the airwaves with his version, all hope was lost," he said.[23]
The New England Americana Festival sells a shirt with an image of a wagon wheel with a line through it—creating a "no 'Wagon Wheel' zone"—and "hipster bar owners 'ban' it."[24]
The song is basically inescapable. It's as much a part of country music as the classics like "Hello Walls" or "Islands In The Stream." That's a big claim, sure, but how many other country songs actually get banned from clubs they're played and requested so much?[25]
—  Wide Open Country
Certification[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[26]
Gold 40,000^
United States (RIAA)[3]
Platinum 1,167,000[27]
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Nathan Carter version[edit]
"Wagon Wheel"
Single by Nathan Carter
from the album Wagon Wheel
Released
15 June 2012
Recorded
2012
Genre
Country
Country and Irish
Length
4:12
Label
Sharpe
Songwriter(s)
Bob Dylan
Ketch Secor
Nathan Carter singles chronology
"Wagon Wheel"
(2012) "Caledonia"
(2013)
"Wagon Wheel"
(2012) "Caledonia"
(2013)
Music video
"Wagon Wheel" on YouTube
The English Irish singer Nathan Carter covered the song in a release June 15, 2012, a few weeks before the song became a hit for Darius Rucker in the United States. The Carter version was the title track taken from his 2012 album, Wagon Wheel. He appeared with a live version of the song on the popular The Late Late Show on RTÉ,[28] being his first appearance on the show. He also engaged on a tour in Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Scotland to promote the album.
Although released independently on Sharpe Music, the song became a huge hit for Carter and was his first hit song on the Irish Singles Chart. The single spent 47 weeks on the chart in its initial release. It was the biggest commercial success of any Country and Irish release in 2012 and considered a crossover hit in the mainstream pop charts. With its re-entry in the charts later in 2013, it has totaled 52 weeks in the Irish Singles Chart (as of December 5, 2013).
Track listing[edit]
Various versions are available through iTunes including:
"Wagon Wheel" – Nathan Carter – single – (4:12)
"Wagon Wheel" (Radio Dance Mix) – Nathan Carter and Micky Modelle – (3:46)
"Wagon Wheel" (Club Mix) – Nathan Carter and Micky Modelle – (3:23)
Music video[edit]
Carter released a music video of the song which features an outing on the beach where Carter sings the song with his band to his friends on the beach with those present joining in clapping and dancing. The video was filmed in Donegal, Ireland.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (2012)
Peak
position
Irish Singles Chart 14
Irish Country Chart 1
Darius Rucker version[edit]
"Wagon Wheel"
Single by Darius Rucker, featuring Lady Antebellum[29]
from the album True Believers
Released
January 7, 2013 (2013-01-07)
Format
Digital download
Genre
Country
Length
4:57 (album version)
Label
Capitol Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Bob Dylan
Ketch Secor
Producer(s)
Frank Rogers
Darius Rucker, featuring Lady Antebellum[29] singles chronology
"True Believers"
(2012) "Wagon Wheel"
(2013) "Radio"
(2013)
"True Believers"
(2012) "Wagon Wheel"
(2013) "Radio"
(2013)
Music video
"Wagon Wheel" on YouTube
Darius Rucker recorded a country version of the song with Lady Antebellum as the second single on his third solo project, True Believers, released on Capitol Records. He joined Old Crow Medicine Show at the Grand Ole Opry July 6, 2012, "for a special rendition of 'Wagon Wheel'" where the fans "went crazy over Rucker's cover of the Old Crow Medicine Show hit." After this reception he tweeted out: "Secret out after @opry perf. I recorded a version of 'Wagon Wheel' for my new record and @ladyantebellum sings on track."[30]
Backstory[edit]
The song did not at first appeal to Rucker. "Somebody had played 'Wagon Wheel' for me years ago," he said. "It was one of those things that I didn't really get." The faculty band at his daughter's high school performing had a different effect, as he relates,
We were watching my daughter, and the faculty band gets up. It's just the faculty from her school, and they play "Wagon Wheel." I'm sitting in the audience, and they get to the middle of the chorus, and I turned to my wife, and I go, "I've got to cut this song."[31]
With guidance from Frank Liddell, Rucker cut the song with Lady Antebellum on backing vocals. He told Taste of Country: "Lady Antebellum took the song to a new level. Up until they added their vocals, I thought it was another song on the record."[31]
Rucker had been introduced to Fuqua's source for Dylan's outtake years prior: "I got turned onto the Pat Garrett soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day. It's so different from a lot of his other stuff. It's such a cool record."[32] Rucker also previously had had some experience with crediting Dylan on a song he'd performed. His group Hootie and the Blowfish's 1995 hit single "Only Wanna Be With You" quotes an entire verse from Dylan's 1975 song "Idiot Wind". When the record began selling big, the "Dylan camp" took issue, and Dylan was ultimately credited as a co-writer. As Rucker remembers, "They wanted some money, and they got it. We weren't trying to rip anybody off."[32]
Genre[edit]
For Rucker it was largely an issue of musical genre and the high school group changing his thinking on it: "I knew the song, and to me it was such a perfect bluegrass tune that I didn't think I could do it. But they did a country version of it, with drums and pedal steel. I was like, 'Wait a minute. That would be a great country song.'"[32] On deciding to go country with it, Rucker says:
It's such the perfect country song. When we were cutting it, all we had (to model it on) was this perfect bluegrass song. I couldn't do it as a bluegrass song. It's just not me. So if we were going to do it, we had to make it a 1950s country song. I'm not shocked at how successful it's been, but I didn't expect it.[11]
"It's another interesting chapter in the history of a song that's slowly working its way toward American classic status. Like 'House of the Rising Sun' or 'Good Night, Irene,' it's now a pop song with a long back story that tantalizingly trickles out before you reach the wellspring."[11]
Chris Talbott (on Rucker version)
When asked if he thought his recording would be nominated for a Grammy Award, Rucker responded: "If 'Wagon Wheel' doesn't get nominated for a GRAMMY, country music is screwed. It's as simple as that. I'm not saying I should win it, but it should be nominated."[33]
Critical reception[edit]
Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave Rucker's version a five-star rating.[34] Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave Rucker's version four and a half stars out of five.[35] As to the reaction of the originating group, Rucker says, "I think the Old Crow Medicine Show guys are very happy about it, and that's all that matters to me."[36] On Rucker's version of the song, Chris 'Critter' Fuqua of Old Crow Medicine Show says:
I love it. He actually played with us at (The Grand Ole) Opry, and it was great. I think he sees something special in that song and understands it. He's a country music fan and, more than that, he just loves music and loves playing. I'm really glad he cut the track. It's been good for him and good for us, but I'm just waiting for the time when people come up to me and say, "I love when you guys played that Darius Rucker cover."[5]
Rucker's version was nominated as Single of the Year for the 47th Country Music Association Awards along with Florida Georgia Line ("Cruise"), Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ("Highway Don't Care"), Miranda Lambert ("Mama's Broken Heart") and Kacey Musgraves ("Merry Go 'Round").[37] Rucker closed the televised awards show with the song November 6, 2013.[38]
I didn't know how big it was until after I cut it, until after it was a single. I didn't know that every college student south of the Mason–Dixon line in the last eight years knows this song. I had no idea. I thought it was just another Old Crow song until I recorded it and realized it wasn't just another Old Crow song.[11]
Darius Rucker
Rucker won the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards (held January 26, 2014) for his version of "Wagon Wheel".[39] Rucker's win makes him only the second African American after Charley Pride to be both nominated for and win a vocal performance Grammy award in a country music category. Other nominees up for the same award were Lee Brice for "I Drive Your Truck", Hunter Hayes for "I Want Crazy", Miranda Lambert for "Mama's Broken Heart" and Blake Shelton for "Mine Would Be You".
In August 2016 Taste of Country placed the Rucker version of "Wagon Wheel" 17th on its list of "Top Country Songs of the Century".[40]
Music video[edit]
Rucker released a music video of the song on March 21, 2013, which features several members of the television show Duck Dynasty, along with Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum. It was filmed in Watertown, Tennessee.
Chart performance[edit]
The most popular song of his career, solo or otherwise, Rucker's "Wagon Wheel" debuted at No. 51 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week of January 19, 2013.[41] It also debuted at number 32 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of January 26, 2013.[42] It debuted at No. 96 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of February 6, 2013; it debuted at 72 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of February 13, 2013. In its 10th chart week, March 20, 2013, Rucker's version made "a strong move" on Hot Country Songs, going from 11 to 5, and to 18 on Country Airplay (to 14.7 million, up 20%). Old Crow's original (from 2004) sold 15,000 and ranked 28 on Country Digital Songs the same week.[43] The song reached number one on Hot Country Songs in its 12th week. It is his most successful song as a solo artist on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 15, as well as the Canadian Hot 100, where it peaked at number 23. By March 2014, the song has sold 2,678,000 copies in the United States, making it then the fifth best-selling song by a male country solo artist.[44] As of November 2017, the song has sold 3,612,000 copies in the US.[45]
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2013)
Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[46] 23
Canada Country (Billboard)[47] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[48] 15
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[49] 1
US Country Airplay (Billboard)[50] 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2013)
Position
Canada Canadian Hot 100[51] 80
US Billboard Hot 100[52] 54
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[53] 2
US Country Airplay (Billboard)[54] 28
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[55]
3× Platinum 240,000^
United States (RIAA)[4]
3× Platinum 3,612,000[45]
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Other covers[edit]
Blues singer Matt Andersen and Against Me! covered the song in 2005, Jeremy McComb in 2007, Red Wanting Blue in 2009, Mumford & Sons in 2010, and Chad Brownlee in 2012.
Timeflies released an online version with new adapted lyrics using the refrain from the song.
Rockabilly singer Jason Lee Wilson covered the song with directionally-correct lyrics on his 2010 album Big Gun.
Scottish folk musician Norrie MacIver covered the song in both English and Scottish Gaelic on his 2015 solo album Dans na Rathad (The Road Dance).
Irish duo Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly covered the song on their album, Live in Australia.
In popular culture[edit]
South Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland sang a parody of the song "with lyrics rewritten to match his campaign message" at a campaign "folk-rock concert" at the Strawbale Winery north of Sioux Falls in October 2014. Parody lyrics included the line: "I can't run a nine million-dollar campaign, but I don't have EB-5 to explain".[56] Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine played the song on harmonica with local act Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp at the Catawba Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina on August 15, 2016.[57][58][59]
In 2015, New Zealand rugby legend and then All Blacks captain Richie McCaw was quoted as saying Wagon Wheel was his fourth favorite song. "He loves Wagon Wheel," Kieran Read revealed. "As soon as that comes on in the bus he will be tapping away and singing."[60] The song itself was played on the lead up to matches, played frequently on the tour bus.
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External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Ketch Secor
Critter Fuqua
Kevin Hayes
Morgan Jahnig
Gill Landry
Cory Younts
Chance McCoy
Studio albums
O.C.M.S. (2004)
Big Iron World (2006)
Tennessee Pusher (2008)
Carry Me Back (2012)
Remedy (2014)
50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017, live)
Volunteer (2018)
Songs
"Cocaine Habit"
"See See Rider"
"Union Maid"
"Wagon Wheel"
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NHL Winter Classic
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NHL Winter Classic
National Hockey League
First played
January 1, 2008
Times held
10
Teams participated
11
Most wins
2: Washington Capitals (2011, 2015) and New York Rangers (2012, 2018)
Most recent
January 1, 2018
Most recent winner
New York Rangers
The NHL Winter Classic is one of the three series of regular season outdoor games played in the National Hockey League (NHL), and is distinct from the league's other two series, the NHL Heritage Classic and the NHL Stadium Series. The Winter Classic is annually held on or around New Year's Day, generally in a football or baseball stadium, in an area with a resident NHL team. The first Winter Classic was held in 2008 at the venue then known as Ralph Wilson Stadium (now New Era Field) in Orchard Park, New York, between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins. A total of ten have been held. The most recent game was played during 2017–18 season at Citi Field, in Queens, New York on January 1, 2018 between the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. The Rangers won 3-2 in overtime.
After the success of the Cold War at Michigan State University in 2001 and the 2003 Heritage Classic, the NHL's first regular season outdoor game, the league inaugurated the Winter Classic in 2008. It eventually caught on as an annual tradition for the league, suspending only in 2013 due to 2012–13 NHL lockout. The 2014 game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings set a new NHL attendance record of 105,491. The Winter Classic has been contested only in the United States, while the Heritage Classic has been held exclusively in Canada. The Winter Classic featured only American teams for its first five games, until the Maple Leafs' appearance in 2014.
Along with the NHL All-Star Game, the Winter Classic is considered one of the NHL's premier events; with matchups generally booked to showcase the league's most popular teams and players, the event garners the league its highest attendance and among its highest television ratings. The event is typically promoted as a return to the sport's outdoor roots, meant to evoke memories of pond hockey. Its popularity has led to the scheduling of additional outdoor hockey games, both in the NHL and other leagues worldwide. In May 2014, the SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily named the Winter Classic its "Sports Event of the Year," the second time in five years the Classic has won that distinction.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 History
2 List of NHL Winter Classics
3 Appearances
4 Throwback sweaters
5 Impact
5.1 2014 game
6 TV Ratings in the U.S.
7 Future sites
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
History[edit]
Ralph Wilson Stadium (now New Era Field), near Buffalo, during the first Winter Classic in 2008
The Winter Classic as a television event was presented by NBC Sports Executive VP Jon Miller. He pitched the idea to the NHL in 2004 "but they didn't find the concept workable."[2] In December 2006, Miller found an ally in then Executive VP/Business & Media John Collins, who embraced the idea.[3][4] The first Winter Classic was held January 1, 2008, between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The game had a then-NHL-record crowd of 71,217 fans in attendance. The success of the 2008 NHL Winter Classic led the NHL to schedule a second one for 2009, held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, on January 1, 2009, matching the Detroit Red Wings against the Chicago Blackhawks. That game had the highest American television ratings of any hockey game in 33 years.
The third Winter Classic was held at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 2010, featuring the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers. The result was a 2–1 overtime win for Boston, the first home team to win a Winter Classic. The 2011 game was played at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals with Washington winning 3–1.
The fifth Winter Classic was held at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, on January 2, 2012, featuring the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers. The result was a 3–2 win for New York.
Weather has proven to affect the game, with the 2011 and 2012 classics being delayed due to rain and other weather. Outdoor effects of wind and sun glare may give an unfair advantage to one team, so the NHL sometimes modifies the third and overtime periods. In this case, play is stopped at the midway point and teams switch directions. This option was exercised in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2018. The 2008, 2014 and 2018 games also featured the teams switching ends halfway through the five-minute sudden-death overtime period for the same reason. In the 2008 and 2014 the games went into a shootout, where both goaltenders alternated defending the same goal, rather than the normal practice of defending opposite goals.
The Winter Classic was made a part of the NHL schedule through at least January 1, 2021, as part of the league's television contract, initially with NBC and Versus, then just NBC after Comcast (the parent company of Versus) bought NBC and merged Versus into the NBC Sports banner.
The 2012 Winter Classic in Philadelphia was not played on New Year's Day, as that fell on a Sunday in 2012 and conflicted with the NFL's final week of regular season games. Instead, following precedent set by college football's bowl games (which move their games to Monday when January 1 lands on Sunday),[citation needed] and to prevent a weather delay from pushing into the timeslot for NBC Sunday Night Football, the game took place on January 2, 2012. The game was played at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Neighboring Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, reportedly was preferred, but as the Eagles hosted a home game on January 1, the NHL could not undertake the required week-long renovations needed to construct the outdoor playing arena. The New York Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3–2.
The sixth Winter Classic was scheduled for Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor in 2013, with the Detroit Red Wings hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs in an Original Six matchup. However, the 2012–13 NHL lockout disrupted the season, leading to the game's cancellation on November 2, 2012.[5] The matchup was rescheduled for the 2014 Winter Classic, at the same venue with the same participants.[6] It was the first time a Canadian team participated in the Winter Classic. An NHL-record total of 105,491 tickets were sold, greater than the Guinness World Records-certified world-record attendance of 104,173 at The Big Chill at the Big House, also held at Michigan Stadium.[7] However, on January 24, 2014, an NHL source reported that the certified attendance, based on tickets scanned at the venue, fell short of the world record.[8]
The seventh Winter Classic was announced on September 21, 2013 when Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis announced the 2015 Winter Classic would be hosted by his franchise.[9] On June 22, 2014, the NHL announced the Capitals would play the Chicago Blackhawks.[10] On September 10, 2014, the NHL announced the game would be played at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.[11]
The eighth Winter Classic was announced on January 24, 2015 at an All Star Game press conference when the NHL announced that the Winter Classic would return to Massachusetts, with the Boston Bruins hosting the Montreal Canadiens at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.[12] On January 1, 2016, the Montreal Canadiens won the 2016 Winter Classic by defeating the Boston Bruins 5–1.[13] The Montreal Canadiens were welcomed with the return of Brendan Gallagher, who had missed 17 games due to broken fingers that required surgery, and managed a goal and an assist, earning him the first star of the game.[13][14]
The ninth Winter Classic was announced on March 9, 2016 when the NHL announced that the Winter Classic would come to Missouri, with the St. Louis Blues hosting the Chicago Blackhawks at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.[15] The Winter Classic was the second of two outdoor games to be held over the New Year's weekend in 2017, with the NHL Centennial Classic being held in Toronto on January 1 and the Winter Classic following on January 2. The St. Louis Blues defeated the Chicago Blackhawks by the score of 4–1, scoring 3 goals in the third period. The Chicago Blackhawks are the only team to lose 3 times in the Winter Classic.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first Winter Classic, the NHL announced on May 10, 2017 that the Buffalo Sabres would take part in the 2018 game against the New York Rangers at Citi Field. Due to a 1982 agreement with New York City and state tax laws that give their home arena Madison Square Garden tax-exempt status, the Rangers must not "cease playing" home games at MSG (which is generally interpreted as meaning playing a home game at any other venue), and thus a legal fiction was constructed so that the Rangers host the game as the away team. The arrangement gives the Sabres only 40 games for the 2017–18 season in their home city of Buffalo, while the Rangers receive 42 games (not counting away games against the New York Islanders) in New York City. Similar legal fictions had been employed for the Rangers in the 2014 Stadium Series and the 2011 NHL Premiere.[16][17][18] The game will be played on January 1, 2018.
On November 18th, 2017, the NHL announced that the Chicago Blackhawks would take part in a fourth Winter Classic as they will host the Boston Bruins on January 1st, 2019. It will be the Bruins third participation to the event. The game will be played at Notre Dame Stadium, Indiana, marking the first time that the game is not played in the same state or media market the host team (the stadium is located less than 100 miles from Chicago but is served by television stations in South Bend instead of Chicago)[19].
List of NHL Winter Classics[edit]
Year
Venue
Sport of venue
Location
Visiting team
Home team
Score
Attendance
2008 Ralph Wilson Stadium Football Orchard Park, NY Pittsburgh Penguins Buffalo Sabres 2–1 (SO) 71,217
2009 Wrigley Field Baseball Chicago, IL Detroit Red Wings Chicago Blackhawks 6–4 40,818
2010 Fenway Park Baseball Boston, MA Philadelphia Flyers Boston Bruins 1–2 (OT) 38,112
2011 Heinz Field Football Pittsburgh, PA Washington Capitals Pittsburgh Penguins 3–1 68,111
2012 Citizens Bank Park Baseball Philadelphia, PA New York Rangers Philadelphia Flyers 3–2 46,967
2013 Michigan Stadium College football Ann Arbor, MI Toronto Maple Leafs Detroit Red Wings cancelled due to lockout
2014 Michigan Stadium College football Ann Arbor, MI Toronto Maple Leafs Detroit Red Wings 3–2 (SO) 105,491
2015 Nationals Park Baseball Washington, D.C. Chicago Blackhawks Washington Capitals 2–3 42,832
2016 Gillette Stadium Football Foxborough, MA Montreal Canadiens Boston Bruins 5–1 67,246
2017 Busch Stadium Baseball St. Louis, MO Chicago Blackhawks St. Louis Blues 1–4 46,556
2018 Citi Field Baseball Queens, NY New York Rangers Buffalo Sabres 3–2 (OT) 41,821
2019 Notre Dame Stadium College football Notre Dame, IN Boston Bruins Chicago Blackhawks
Bolded teams denote winners
All games played on New Year's Day, except for 2012 and 2017, which were played on January 2
The 2013 game was not played due to the NHL lockout, and was rescheduled for 2014
Appearances[edit]
Team
Appearances
Last
Wins
Losses
Chicago Blackhawks 3 2017 0 3
New York Rangers 2 2018 2 0
Washington Capitals 2 2015 2 0
Boston Bruins 2 2016 1 1
Detroit Red Wings 2 2014 1 1
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 2011 1 1
Buffalo Sabres 2 2018 0 2
Philadelphia Flyers 2 2012 0 2
Montreal Canadiens 1 2016 1 0
St. Louis Blues 1 2017 1 0
Toronto Maple Leafs 1 2014 1 0
Throwback sweaters[edit]
Participating teams have worn throwback or retro-style sweaters.
2008
Pittsburgh Penguins: 1970–71
Buffalo Sabres: 1970–71
2009
Detroit Red Wings: 1926–27 Detroit Cougars
Chicago Blackhawks: 1935–36 design with 1948–49 logo
2010
Philadelphia Flyers: 1973–74 with modern font for their numbers and a black nameplate, became permanent road jersey the following season.
Boston Bruins: 1958–59[20] design with brown stripes instead of black, and 1948–49 inspired logo (the original form of the "spoked-B" logo).
2011
Washington Capitals: 1974–75
Pittsburgh Penguins: 1967–68 sweater with colors reversed and crest logo instead of diagonal "Pittsburgh" lettering that appeared on original jerseys.
2012
New York Rangers: Traditional sweater design in off-white with straight-lined player names and blue numbers with red trim in felt rather than drop-shadow tackle twill. Striping on shoulders, arms and tail is a variation of the ones they currently use, and crest logo a modern variation of the logo used for the team's inaugural season in 1926.[21]
Philadelphia Flyers: Traditional sweater design in orange with black numbers and off-white trim. Striping on shoulders, arms and tail is different from the current sweaters. The stripe design was inspired by a sock design the team wore in the 1980s. This design would be used as an alternate uniform in 2014.
2014
Toronto Maple Leafs: Toronto's uniforms were royal blue and white and featured the distinct striping configuration inspired by the 1930s Maple Leafs. The front crest of the jersey featured a distinct wordmark from the inaugural Maple Leafs' logo, revealed in 1927. The neckline design is taken from the sweaters worn by the Leafs throughout the 1960s and the running stitch detail on the numbers is a tribute to the Leafs' sweater from the mid-1950s.[22]
Detroit Red Wings: Detroit wore red and antique white uniforms featuring a striping pattern and arch Detroit wordmark inspired by the late-1920s Detroit Cougars. The front crest on the jersey featured an early iteration of the winged wheel from the late 1930s Red Wings.[22]
2015
Chicago Blackhawks: Chicago's jerseys were based on their 1957 jerseys, white with red and black stripping on the bottom, lace-up collars and the tomahawk logo near the elbows.[23]
Washington Capitals: While the Capitals' uniforms were not technically "throwbacks" because they represented a new uniform not previously worn by the team, they were a combined look back at hockey in D.C.[24] Washington wore red sweaters (in a darker shade of red than the team's normal uniforms) with white stripes atop the shoulders and along the bottom, the front featuring the team's name in white over a large blue 'W', with the center of the 'W' stylized like the Washington Monument.[25]
2016
Montreal Canadiens: Montreal's jerseys were based on the one they wore for the 1924-1925 season. Having won the Stanley Cup the precedent season, the first in the team's history as a member of the NHL, the team put a globe with the word "Champions" under it. Since 1922, the team was using their classic CH logo with inverted colors (the C in white and the H in red): that logo was moved on both arms for the 1924-1925 season. For the Winter Classic, the CH logo was put back as the team's crest while the globe moved on the arms. As for the jersey's colors, they traded place from the original version, the red becoming white and the white becoming red, similar to a jersey worn by the team between 1944 and 1947.[26]
Boston Bruins: Boston also used a jersey based on the one they wore for the 1924-1925 season, their first in the NHL. The jersey is identical to the one used that season, except for the fact that it is black instead of brown as it originally was.[26]
2017
Chicago Blackhawks: The jerseys from the 2015 Winter Classic returned for 2017. Chicago's jerseys were based on their 1957 jerseys, white with red and black stripping on the bottom, lace-up collars and the tomahawk logo near the elbows.[27]
St. Louis Blues: St. Louis' uniforms were based on the inaugural 1967-68 home jersey. The jerseys feature historically-accurate fonts and team striping, a ribbed crewneck collar, the vintage blue color and the original Blue Note crest from the first season.[27]
2018
Buffalo Sabres: 1970s design and colors, with no gold trim on numbers and a small "NY" initial at the bottom of the logo. The "Buffalo" wordmark from the Buffalo Bisons-inspired throwbacks from 2010 is included on the helmet, and a new shoulder crest (a buffalo filled with the word "Sabres") was added.[28]
The throwback sweaters are very popular with fans, and teams have often continued to wear them after the Winter Classic. The Penguins and Blackhawks made their Winter Classic sweaters their alternates the following season. The Flyers went a step further and made their 2010 Winter Classic sweaters their permanent road sweaters, beginning with 2010–11. The Sabres had already been using a variation of their throwback sweater prior to their appearance (that particular season, there were no third sweaters anywhere in the league) and adopted a slightly updated version of the sweaters as their main uniform in 2010–11, while the 2011 contestants, the Penguins and Capitals, wore their classic uniforms as third jerseys in 2011–12. The Capitals continued to do so through the 2014–15 season, the same year the Flyers adopted their 2012 Winter Classic sweaters as their third jerseys.
Impact[edit]
The Winter Classic has proven to be a ratings success for the league in the United States and is regularly the league's most watched regular season contest (in the US), rivaling the ratings for the Stanley Cup. Its popularity in the United States led to the American Hockey League adopting a similar contest in 2010, the AHL Outdoor Classic, which it has reprised each year since. Both the Winter Classic and the earlier Cold War contest helped repopularize outdoor hockey at the college and university level, and several college organizations, minor and junior hockey leagues hold outdoor games each year.
Despite the overwhelming popularity of the original Heritage Classic between the Montreal Canadiens and the Edmonton Oilers in 2003, the popularity of the Winter Classic in Canada is not as high as it is in the United States. On Canada's CBC Television network, the Winter Classic has lower ratings than its weekly regular season telecasts Hockey Night in Canada. This has been attributed to the lack of Canadian teams in any of the Winter Classics and has led to both the revival of the all-Canadian Heritage Classic and the scheduling of the Maple Leafs in the 2014 Winter Classic and the Canadiens in the 2016 edition.
Sports Illustrated columnist Dan Shaughnessy said of the new Winter Classic, "[N]ow hockey owns New Year's Day the way baseball owns the Fourth of July and football owns Thanksgiving."[29]
2014 game[edit]
The 2014 Winter Classic between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs had an NHL-record paid attendance of 105,491, and a television viewership in the U.S. and Canada of 8.2 million television viewers, a North American record for a regular season game.[30] Sportsnet's Chris Johnston said, "The feeling when the players walked into the 87-year-old stadium in front of more than 100,000 fans was truly something special. The biggest and best Winter Classic of them all lived up to its advanced billing." The game went down to the wire, ending in a 3-2 Toronto victory in a shootout.[31]
TV Ratings in the U.S.[edit]
The Winter Classic games usually rank among the most watched regular season NHL games on NBC reacquiring the rights to the NHL in 2005. Early entries in the Winter Classic ranked among the highest ratings for professional hockey in the United States since the 1970s, prior to that, the highest rating for an NHL game since then had been Wayne Gretzky's final game, which aired on Fox in 1999. Winter Classic viewership peaked in 2011 and, with the exception of a bump in 2014, has been in persistent decline since then.[32]
Year
Rating
Viewers
Network
Ref(s)
2008 2.2 3.75 million NBC [33]
2009 2.5 4.40 million NBC [33]
2010 2.1 3.68 million NBC [33]
2011 2.3 4.50 million NBC [33]
2012 2.1 3.73 million NBC [33]
2014 2.5 4.40 million NBC [33]
2015 1.9 3.47 million NBC [33]
2016 1.6 2.78 million NBC [33]
2017 1.5 2.56 million NBC [34]
2018 1.4 2.48 million NBC [35]
Future sites[edit]
Main article: List of stadiums in the United States
Due to the popularity of the event, every NHL team has requested to participate in the Winter Classic either as the host or the visiting team. Numerous locations have been mentioned in the media as potential sites for future Winter Classics or entries in the NHL Stadium Series, including Michie Stadium, FedExField, Ohio Stadium, motorsports venues such as the currently under construction Canadian Motor Speedway in Fort Erie, Ontario, and even non-sports venues like the National Mall or Central Park.[36][37][38][39][40][41] New Sabres and Buffalo Bills owner Terrence Pegula and commissioner Gary Bettman have discussed the possibility of hosting a second Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium (since renamed New Era Field), possibly to coincide with the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, which will include one outdoor game.[42] Former Toronto Maple Leafs President Tim Leiweke expressed his desire to host the 2018 game at a renovated BMO Field to mark the Leafs' centennial (he eventually got the Centennial Classic instead).[43]
Any future additional Winter Classic games in Pittsburgh would have to be held at PNC Park due to scheduling logistics with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who for the 2011 game requested to the NFL to play Week 16 on Thursday night and Week 17 on the road in order to give the NHL time to get Heinz Field ready for the game. (Indeed, work started immediately after the Steelers finished their Thursday night game against the Carolina Panthers, as NFL players were still coming off the field when work started on converting the field.) Both PNC Park and Heinz Field would be available, however, for a Stadium Series game (Heinz Field eventually hosted the 2017 Stadium Series game).[44] Another possibility for the Penguins, Flyers or Sabres (Pegula is a prominent Penn State alumnus who has hosted an annual exhibition game at Penn State's indoor hockey arena since 2016) would be Beaver Stadium on the campus of Penn State University, located between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.[45]
Harvard University and the Boston Bruins have explored the possibility of asking the NHL to schedule the 2024 Winter Classic at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts to coincide with the Boston franchise's 100th anniversary year. If awarded the 2024 Winter Classic, the Bruins are expected to ask the NHL to again have the Montreal Canadiens as the opposition.
The 2019 Winter Classic will be held at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, with the Chicago Blackhawks as host team, playing against the Boston Bruins. Sites for Winter Classic games after 2019 have yet to be determined.
See also[edit]
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