{"id":27880,"date":"2025-02-28T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?p=27880"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:08:48","slug":"2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2025 NHL Stadium Series between the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets is expected to draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans in NHL history. <br><br>NHL president of content and events, Steve Mayer shared the projection on Wednesday, with the game set to take place at Ohio Stadium, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes.<br><br>\u201cThis is an iconic place,\u201d Mayer said.<br>\n<br> \u201cI&#8217;ve watched some incredible sporting events take place in this building, and it&#8217;s special to be here and for us to actually look at what will be the second-largest crowd in the history of these outdoor games, and to know that even though it started many years ago, we&#8217;re still going strong, and we&#8217;re bringing a game to Columbus for the first time. It&#8217;s kind of unbelievable that we haven&#8217;t been here.<br>\n<br>\u201d<br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 NHL Stadium Series between the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets is expected to draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans in NHL history. NHL president of content and events, Steve Mayer shared the projection on Wednesday, with the game set to take place at Ohio Stadium, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes. \u201cThis is an iconic place,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cI&#8217;ve watched some incredible sporting events take place in this building, and it&#8217;s special to be here and for us to actually look at what will be the second-largest crowd in the history of these outdoor games, and to know that even though it started many years ago, we&#8217;re still going strong, and we&#8217;re bringing a game to Columbus for the first time. It&#8217;s kind of unbelievable that we haven&#8217;t been here. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-sport-football-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\"},\"wordCount\":149,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"American Sport\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\",\"name\":\"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Matchplug Blog\",\"description\":\"Matchplug is the best soccer prediction site connecting bettors with winning tips. We are spot on in our Soccer predictions, premier league predictions, Bet9ja prediction, matched betting and premier betting.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Matchplug Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png\",\"width\":389,\"height\":218,\"caption\":\"Matchplug Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog","description":"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog","og_description":"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.","og_url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/","og_site_name":"Matchplug Blog","article_published_time":"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd","datePublished":"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/"},"wordCount":149,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","articleSection":["American Sport","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/","name":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd - Matchplug Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","datePublished":"2025-02-28T10:26:06+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-24T16:08:48+00:00","description":"History about to be made again as NHL game draw out the second largest crowd of over 90,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/2025-stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2025 Stadium Series to draw NHL 2nd-largest crowd"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/","name":"Matchplug Blog","description":"Matchplug is the best soccer prediction site connecting bettors with winning tips. We are spot on in our Soccer predictions, premier league predictions, Bet9ja prediction, matched betting and premier betting.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Matchplug Blog","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png","width":389,"height":218,"caption":"Matchplug Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/author\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stadium-series-to-draw-nhl-2nd-largest-crowd.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29150,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880\/revisions\/29150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}