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| Date | January 1, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Citi Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| City | Queens, New York | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 41,821 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 2018 NHL Winter Classic (officially the 2018 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic) was an outdoor ice hockey game played in the National Hockey League (NHL) on January 1, 2018, at Citi Field in the New York City borough of Queens. The tenth edition of the Winter Classic, the game featured the New York Rangers at the Buffalo Sabres; the Rangers won, 3–2, on an overtime goal by J. T. Miller. The game marked the 10th anniversary of the Winter Classic.
The 2018 game marked the second Winter Classic for each team, following the Rangers' appearance in the 2012 event and the Sabres' in 2008. It was the Rangers' fourth outdoor game, having also appeared in the 2014 Stadium Series.