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Hockey’s Big Event Has Issues

When organizing any kind of new get-together where thousands of people will be involved, one of your first thoughts best be about worst-case scenarios.
Better yet, your first two or three planning meetings should be devoted to all the things that could go awry.

Here are a couple of concerns where the inaugural Frozen Tundra Classic — the men’s hockey game pitting the University of Wisconsin vs. Ohio State at Lambeau Field in Green Bay — is concerned:

* What if the game-day weather conditions at 3p.m. Saturday, Feb.11 — the dead-of-winter date chosen for the first outdoor hockey game in the modern era at UW — replicate those of the epic Ice Bowl?