Yesterday, Mayor Marty Walsh announced that he'd have a big screen set up in Copley Square to show the Winter Classic, as he often does for large sporting events relevant to the citizenry. Last summer, Government Center was home to a lot of people to watch Team USA' women's national soccer team win the World Cup. Big events like this are exciting for participants, and lend a aura of "big event" to anything, even a regular season hockey game.
Today, NBC decided to uphold its reputation as the perfect partner of the NHL - scared to death of different and new things while also depending on existing fans to grow the game.