COLUMBUS, OH – A grand celebration of the Columbus Blue Jackets® and The Ohio State College Buckeyes might be mirrored within the subject design and leisure for the 2025 Navy Federal Credit score Union NHL Stadium Sequence™, the primary outside recreation for the Columbus Blue Jackets as they face off in opposition to the Detroit Purple Wings® at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, March 1, the Nationwide Hockey League (NHL) introduced at this time. The sport might be broadcast stay at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN within the U.S. and on FX-CA, SN+ and TVAS Direct in Canada.
The theme celebrating recreation day traditions of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Ohio State Buckeyes Athletics is seen all through the sphere design rendering launched at this time by the NHL. The NHL rink decking design, impressed by the College’s iconic Athletic Spirit Mark, options the Blue Jackets daring colours of Union blue, white and Purpose crimson. The Cannon, a key component of Blue Jackets residence video games, might be fired every time Columbus scores a purpose. (Render Credit score: NHL, Elevate, Populous)
In a nod to the school sports activities helmet sticker custom, decals depicting the Buckeye Leaf helmet award, the Blue Jackets Cannon, and the NHL Protect adorn the facet of the sphere resulting in the NHL stage, the place Grammy Award-winning rock duo Twenty One Pilots will headline a efficiency in the course of the first intermission introduced by Ticketmaster.
Previous to the sport, platinum-certified band and Ohio’s personal O.A.R. will headline a free live performance on the NHL Stadium Sequence Pep Rally in St. John Enviornment. Free and open to the general public with first-come, first served seating, the occasion will start at 2:30 p.m. ET with a efficiency by the Ohio State College Athletic Band and the College’s award-winning Spirit Group. Columbus Blue Jackets gamers will make their first cease on the NHL Stadium Sequence Pep Rally in St. John Enviornment earlier than the ceremonious stroll over to Ohio Stadium.
The Ohio State Athletic Band will lead festivities in The ‘Shoe with a efficiency in the course of the Blue Jackets and Purple Wings participant introductions. The Opening Ceremony, directed by NHL Leisure, will formally start with a efficiency of the U.S. Nationwide Anthem by the Ohio State Athletic Band. Members of The Ohio State College ROTC will current colours and lift the U.S. flag. The Opening Ceremony will conclude with a ceremonial puck drop and a flyover that includes 2 F-16s from the one hundred and eightieth Fighter Wing in Toledo and one KC-135 from the 121st Air Refueling Wing in Columbus. Tributes to Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau are deliberate all through the sport.
The second intermission will function a celebration of Ohio State’s Nationwide Championship groups, together with the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Champion Ohio State Buckeyes, Spirit Program and 2024 Ladies’s Hockey. The Ohio State Athletic Band will carry out in the course of the second intermission in addition to all through the sport.
American Signal Language (ASL) interpretation of the U.S. anthem efficiency might be supplied by two Columbus natives as a part of the League’s partnership with P-X-P, with 13-year-old Elyssa Williams serving because the Deaf performer and John Lestina serving because the ASL interpreter.
NHL in ASL, an alternate telecast devoted fully to the Deaf and laborious of listening to neighborhood utilizing American Signal Language, might be returning for the 2025 Navy Federal Credit score Union NHL Stadium Sequence and might be out there to stream solely on ESPN+ within the U.S. and on Sportsnet+ in Canada. NHL in ASL, introduced by Scotiabank in Canada, will function Deaf commentators offering real-time protection of play-by-play and coloration commentary in ASL, visible descriptions of main influence performs, and graphic visualizations with customized emojis to depict key occasions on the ice all through the sport. For the primary time, the telecast will function participant interviews stay from Ohio Stadium with Jason Altmann, Chief Working Officer of P-X-P, and co-host Noah Blankenship.
Keep tuned to the newest information on this implausible Winter occasion over the subsequent few days. The build-up continues.
Dennis Morrell has developed a deeply rooted ardour for our recreation over many a long time as a goaltender, author, photographer, goalie coach, and energetic Stage 3 USA Hockey-certified, on-ice official with over 2,500 video games with the whistle. His ardour for the sport started within the early 70s upon his first look at gamers battling for the puck at Clayton’s Shaw Park.
And sure, the ice is ideal.
He has been lucky to journalistically cowl 2 NHL Entry Drafts, 5 NHL All-Star Video games, 8 NHL Outside Video games in two international locations and 25 video games performed within the context of 10 Stanley Cup Ultimate sequence, witnessing the oldest trophy in sports activities lifted by the champion 4 instances, together with when his beloved hometown workforce, the St. Louis Blues, gained their first chalice in 2019.
He has witnessed over 1,000 main and minor skilled video games in over 250 completely different arenas. He may be reached at dennis.morrell@prohockeynews.com and you’ll observe him on Twitter at DMMORRELL.
