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| Date | December 16, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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| Venue | TD Place Stadium | |||||||||||||||
| City | Ottawa, Ontario | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 33,959 | |||||||||||||||
The NHL 100 Classic (branded as the Scotiabank NHL 100 Classic for sponsorship reasons) was a regular season outdoor National Hockey League (NHL) game held on December 16, 2017. The game featured the Ottawa Senators playing the Montreal Canadiens at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa (referred to as "Lansdowne Park" due to naming rights conflicts with an official sponsor of the NHL). It was the first of the three scheduled outdoor regular season games in the 2017–18 NHL season.
As part of the NHL's centennial and local celebrations of Canada's sesquicentennial, the game was a rematch of one of the first two NHL games held on December 19, 1917, played between the Canadiens and the original Ottawa Senators. The Senators shut out the Canadiens, 3–0, with Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson making 28 saves.[1]
It marked the first outdoor game hosted by Ottawa, and the second that Ottawa has participated in; they previously faced the Vancouver Canucks in the 2014 Heritage Classic.[2] This was Montreal's fourth time appearing in an outdoor game.
- ^ "Anderson. Senators defeat Canadiens in 2017 NHL100 Classic". NHL.com. December 16, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ Garrioch, Bruce. "Senators Dec. 16 outdoor game against Canadiens caps off big anniversary year". Ottawa Citizen. Postmedia Network. Retrieved March 18, 2017.