Winter Classic

January 2, 2012 the Rangers and the Flyers took the game of hockey outside for the 2012 Winter Calssic. The game was promised to be a good one. The New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers are division rivals, and fighting for the top spot in the Atlantic Division. The game was held in the Philadelphia Phillies baseball stadium. The first period started and ended in a zero, zero tie. In the second period, within two minutes of each other, Brayden Schenn, Claude Giroux, and Mike Rupp scored to change the zeroes on the board. Going into the third period the score was 2-1, favoring the Flyers. Two minutes into the final period Mike Rupp scored his second of the game to tie the score at two. Brad Richards scored three minutes later to put the rangers up 3-2. The rest of the period was scoreless, even though there was a penalty shot given to the Flyers with twenty seconds left. The Rangers won, beating their division rivals while climbing to the top of the Atlantic Division.