2014 NHL Winter Classic

The 2014 NHL Winter Classic was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game that was played on January 1, 2014 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The visiting Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 3–2 in a shootout to move past the Red Wings in the Atlantic Division.

The game was televised nationally in Canada on CBC and nationally in the United States on NBC. The game set an NHL attendance record of 105,491, surpassing the previous record set during the 2008 NHL Winter Classic.

The game was originally planned to be played on January 1, 2013 as the 2013 NHL Winter Classic, but it was postponed until the following year due to the 2012–13 NHL lockout.

The 2014 Winter Classic is one of six outdoor games to be held during the 2013–14 NHL season which will include the new NHL Stadium Series and the 2014 Heritage Classic.

These six games will serve as the NHL's premiere showcase games for this season as there will be no All Star Game due to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.