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Winter Classic still iced out of NY

Buffalo, Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh have had their turns, and Philadelphia is up next Jan. 2. That’s five NHL Winter Classics without a visit to the metropolitan area.

So, NHL, when will the game finally come to Big Town? Probably not until 2014 at the earliest.

“I don’t think we’re looking at a Winter Classic next year in New York,’’ John Collins, the NHL’s chief operating officer,...

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