2021 NHL Winter Classic
The 2021 NHL Winter Classic is an upcoming outdoor regular season National Hockey League game, part of the Winter Classic series that is scheduled for January 1, 2021. The game will feature the Minnesota Wild hosting the St. Louis Blues at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The league announced the game exactly one year earlier on January 1, 2020. The league then announced on February 23, 2020 that the St. Louis Blues would be the visiting team.
The league had previously contemplated Target Field as a host for a Winter Classic game, touring the stadium both in 2018 and 2019, and observing how the area hosted the 2019 NCAA Final Four. This will be the Wild's second outdoor game after hosting the 2016 NHL Stadium Series against the Chicago Blackhawks at TCF Bank Stadium. This will also be the Blues' second outdoor game after hosting the 2017 NHL Winter Classic against the Blackhawks at Busch Stadium.
The game will be broadcast by NBC; it is the last Winter Classic in the network's broadcast contract, which expires at the end of the 2020–21 season.
