Report: Yankee Stadium to host two outdoor NHL games

Yankee Stadium will reportedly host two hockey games next season. (Al Bello/Getty Images) The National Hockey League is planning to schedule two outdoor games

Yankee Stadium will reportedly host two hockey games next season. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

The National Hockey League is planning to schedule two outdoor games next season at Yankee Stadium, one of  six outdoor contests set to take place next season, ESPN.com reports.

Both games involved New York City-area teams. One planned game would be for the New York Rangers to take on the New Jersey Devils and the second game would have the Rangers playing the New York Islanders.

The reports says that the plan is to play both games in the week leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Feb. 2., 2014.

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