After years of negotiations failed to bring an outdoor game to Parliament Hill, it sounds like an agreement has finally been reached to play a 2017-18 regular season game featuring the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens at TD Place at Lansdowne this upcoming December.
The original Senators played the Montreal Canadiens on December 19, 1917 for the NHL’s first game in history, but this event is also significant because the Senators and the City of Ottawa also want the event to headline Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will arrive in town tomorrow morning from for Jim Watson’s mayor’s breakfast event, but it sounds like an official announcement on the game could come today.