{"id":28862,"date":"2015-01-24T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/coors-field-to-host-avs-red-wings-in-2015-16\/"},"modified":"2015-01-24T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T14:56:00","slug":"coors-field-to-host-avs-red-wings-in-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/coors-field-to-host-avs-red-wings-in-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Coors Field to host Avs-Red Wings in 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Avalanche will host the Detroit Red Wings at Coors Field in February of 2016, the team and the NHL announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The game, part of the league&#8217;s Stadium Series initiative, will take place at the home of the Colorado Rockies on Feb. 27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first-ever outdoor event involving the Avalanche, who will be in their 20th season in Colorado since the franchise relocated from Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great day for our organization and our fans,&#8221; said Avalanche executive vice president\/general manager Joe Sakic. &#8220;Playing in an outdoor game will be an amazing experience for everyone. To have this game in the state of Colorado, in a terrific venue like Coors Field, is something we are truly looking forward to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings have participated in the New Year&#8217;s Day Winter Classic twice previously, having hosted the Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium in the 2014 edition and having faced the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field back in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Avalanche will host the Detroit Red Wings at Coors Field in February of 2016, the team and the NHL announced Friday. The game, part of the league&#8217;s Stadium Series initiative, will take place at the home of the Colorado Rockies on Feb. 27, 2016. It will be the first-ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}