The NHL Winter Classic will be played tomorrow at Fenway Park in Boston between your Flyers and their Bruins. Given the Flyers woes, this could be the most exciting game they play in the first half of 2010. The first Classic featured 900,000 people in Orchard Park, New York watching the Sabres and Penguins go to a shootout. That game ended on a goal by S. Crosby which resembled Brett Favre’s cowtowing to Michael Strahan’s sack record (yeah, the goal was scripted so back off, Pens fans). Last year’s game featured Wrigley Field, the Red Wings, the Blackhawks and plump kielbasas.

Ignorant donkeys who don’t get hockey because they grew up in suburban Atlanta may not be watching tomorrow, but we certainly will be. Assuming the ice doesn’t turn into a pond (questionable weather is in the forecast), it should be a lot of fun. And if you’ll entertain this silly prognostication for a moment: Fenway Park will be the scene of the baseball teams from both towns playing for the World Series in October. So there’s a little foreshadowing in the works. Let’s hope the Flyers can get the Phillies off on the right foot with a win.