NHL Winter Classic Cancelled: The 6 Dumbest Decisions in NHL
History  By (Featured Columnist) on November 6, 2012  1,887
reads   1 of 9 The loss of the Winter Classic is the low point
of the 2012 lockout...so far Rob Carr/Getty Images  When the NHL
cancelled the Winter Classic on Friday (ESPN), the integrity of
the 2012-2013 NHL season—if there is any season at all—may have
been compromised to the point of irrelevance.  As if the 2012
NHL lockout has not been absurd enough to begin with, the loss
of the 2013 Winter Classic now resonates as one of the dumbest
moves the NHL has made in years—perhaps ever.  The 2013 Winter
Classic promised to be the one of the biggest events ever for
the NHL, a huge boon not just for the NHL but for the state of
Michigan, in general and, more specifically, for the city of
Detroit.  The game itself—an Original Six matchup between the
Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings— had all the
potential to have the highest attendance of any NHL game ever as
115,000 fans were expect