2024 NHL Stadium Series

The 2024 NHL Stadium Series is a series of two outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) games that are planned to be played during the 2023–24 NHL season. This will be the first time since 2016 that two Stadium Series games are scheduled instead of just one. Both games are planned to be held on the weekend of February 17–18, 2024, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Flyers will face the New Jersey Devils on February 17, then the New York Rangers will play the New York Islanders on February 18.[1]

2024 NHL Stadium Series
MetLife Stadium
East Rutherford, New Jersey
February 17–18, 2024
Game onePhiladelphia Flyers at
New Jersey Devils
Game twoNew York Rangers at
New York Islanders
← 2023 2025 →

Background

The NHL announced the Stadium Series games on June 3, 2023.[1] The league originally planned to only stage one game with just the Rangers and the Devils.[2]

All three NHL teams in the New York metropolitan area will be represented, like the two games at Yankee Stadium in the 2014 NHL Stadium Series.[3] The Rangers are again the only one out of those three clubs that have been designated as a 'visiting' team. This maintains the legal fiction regarding the property tax-exempt status held by the Rangers' home arena, Madison Square Garden. The arena would lose its tax exception if the Rangers play a "home" game elsewhere.[2][3][4]

MetLife Stadium is scheduled to undergo renovations after the end of the 2023 National Football League season in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and therefore several low-level sideline seats will be removed prior to the Stadium Series.[2]

References
  1. "Devils to play Flyers, Rangers against Islanders at 2024 Stadium Series". NHL.com. June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  2. Wyshynski, Greg (June 3, 2023). "NHL reveals 'unprecedented' twin bill of outdoor games in N.J." ESPN.com. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  3. Klein, Jeff Z. (January 25, 2014). "Rangers on Road in the Bronx? Money May Be Why". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  4. Benjamin, Cody (May 12, 2017). "Sabres 'hosting' 2018 Winter Classic vs. Rangers reportedly saves MSG $40M". CBSSports.com. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
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