NHL cancels Winter Classic and now the big boys hurt

Today the NHL has decided instead of starting to pay the huge down payment of booking the Big House in Michigan for January 1st,2013 they have axed the whole thing and with no talks schedule it will be hard to imagine that it will be re-booked for this season. With this happening the NHL is biting the head that feeds them because a ton of money would be made by the Detroit Red Wings who have been one of the most competitive teams in the NHL in the last quarter century and they need the money. Things in Michigan are not very good as it is run by Car manufacturers especially Ford so it has been hard for the Red Wings to get top dollar for their tickets but got over 20,000 fans a game but have a middle of the road average ticket price of 53.28 and is 4 dollars less than the NHL average 57.10. The Red Wings who a max team (64 million dollars a season) and are struggling to balance the books and the money will help them financially and it is the biggest hit to the big boys of the NHL and will be the biggest pill to shallow for them to help the sinking ships that are a lot of southern teams and the Phoenix Coyotes and the New York Islanders. This thing also diffidently hurts the community around the Big House because a lot of people lost the opportunity to make a salary with two Alumni hockey games, an AHL hockey game, and the big game in front of over 100,000 fans in the stands. The hotel business around the stadium were booked solid and they were going to make good money over the span of a couple weeks and now those rooms will likely be empty and the hotels will need to give back the down payments on the rooms that were booked solid. The Winter Classic will be back on January 1st,2014 and it will be still at the Big House Tom Mehegan