For more than a week, there has been a 200 feet by 85 feet sheet of ice sitting at LoanDepot Park in Miami, and the National Hockey League is counting on it not melting. It’s the same ice where the Florida Panthers and New York Rangers will meet on Friday in the 2026 NHL Winter Classic, the league’s famed annual outdoor games. The game is more associated with snowy locations in historic hockey strongholds like Toronto and Chicago than our beach-friendly winter, but with Broward’s Florida Panthers as the current two-time champions, South Florida became impossible to ignore. The league is turning to...
