77,803 people showed up to what has become the world’s largest outdoor game as the 2010 IIHF World Championships started on Thursday night. The rousing success of this game is making officials think about having the same type of game for subsequent World Championships. From the IIHF website:
Has Success Of Outdoor World Championship Game Become The Future?
↵↵Are you up for the Challenge, Slovakia (2011)? Finland and Sweden (2012 and ‘13)? Belarus (‘14)?
↵Every great hockey nation has its rival. Imagine if Slovakia played the Czech Republic in such a place, or Sweden and Finland battled it out. Imagine if Canada and the United States played their gold-medal game at Vancouver’s football stadium! Gelsenkirchen is the way of the future.
↵↵The Germans ended up feeding off the home crowd to guide their way to a 2-1 overtime victory over the United States.
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