ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan and Michigan State will play a hockey game inside the cavernous confines of Michigan Stadium on Saturday. The plan is to break the sport’s world attendance record, and that seems like a certainty. The stadium’s listed capacity is 109,901, and the event is a sellout.
Earlier this year, Germany hosted a game at the world championship in front of 77,803 in Veltins Arena.
This game is being called “The Big Chill at the Big House” — and it’s fitting that Michigan State will be the opponent. In 2001, the Spartans hosted Michigan in a hockey game at their football stadium in front of a crowd of 74,544.
Since then, the idea has been copied both at the college level and by the NHL.
