Chicago Blackhawks to host Minnesota Wild in NHL preseason game at Fiserv Forum
The Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League will play a preseason game at Fiserv Forum on Oct. 2.
Puck drop for the contest, the first NHL game Milwaukee will host since 1993, will be at 6:30 p.m.
The Wild are owned by Wisconsin native Craig Leipold.
The game will be the NHL’s first in Milwaukee since 1993 and the Blackhawks' first game in the city since playing the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 1, 1992. The Bradley Center hosted NHL preseason and regular-season games annually between 1988-93.
The Deer District will open at 3 p.m. and doors open at the arena at 5 p.m.
In a statement released Wednesday by the teams and arena, Blackhawks president of business operations Jaime Faulkner said, “We are excited to bring the Blackhawks experience to our fans out of Chicago, and we can’t think of a better place to start than our incredible neighbors to the north. We’re hard at work designing a gameday fans won’t want to miss as the first NHL team to bring a game to Fiserv Forum in partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks and BMO.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
The Fiserv Forum's primary occupant, the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, will be in training camp before heading to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for a pair of preseason games against Atlanta on Oct. 6 and Oct. 8.
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