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The 2023 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic is set to feature the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. It will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of hosting the first-ever NHL regular-season outdoor game in the 2003 NHL Heritage Classic, a 4-3 win for the Montreal Canadiens over the Oilers in front of 57,167 fans on November 23, 2003. Including that game, there have been 37 regular-season outdoor games played to date, attended by 1,851,642 fans. The Flames-Oilers outdoor matchup will mark the seventh NHL Heritage Classic, which includes the inaugural game in Edmonton (2003), as well as games in Calgary (2011), Vancouver (2014), Winnipeg (2016), Regina (2019) and Hamilton (2022).
This year’s NHL Heritage Classic will take place on October 29, 2023, at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, home of the Edmonton Elks of the CFL.
Tickets for the NHL Heritage Classic are available on Ticketmaster.
Nickelback will perform at the 2023 Heritage Classic. The Diamond-certified rock band, which was also recently inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, will take the stage during the second intermission.
The Beaches will also be the featured performer at the SiriusXM Canada Pregame Concert, which will be held at Clarke Stadium. The SiriusXM Canada Pregame Concert is free and open to the public, and is set to take place at 2:30 p.m. MT.
The game was great and the atmosphere was fun. The concert was short and wish they would have darkened the field and made it more like a concert. Three songs were not enough with one not even being Nickelbacks. Getting in & out of the venue was horrible. Trying to get a drink, food or going to the bathroom was miserable. The LRT was terrible.
The game itself and entertainment were great. The venue needs massive improvements to handle that many people. It was impossible to get off of the stairs and onto the concourse during the intermission as there was a literal wall of bodies. There were no formal queues for the concessions which led to a massive muddled blob of people blocking the majority of the available concourse space. Poorly placed merchandise and 50 50, beer etc made it even worse
The game and the experience was great. However... a few things could use improving. 1. The line ups to get into common wealth were absolutely insane. 2. I think part of the reason was the "smaller than a postcard"purse rule. No one was really made aware until we got there. People were ABANDONING their purses on fence posts. It was pure insanity. And no real reason ... still had to go through metal detector. So why this game? Why now? This was a huge hold up. 3. As is normal with the outdoor games, the ice surface is so Itty bitty when up in football stands. (I'm putting this here solely for the sake of complaining ... while understanding that this is just ... the way it is) but... to this point... 4. It would have been nice to have more screens around the stadium
It was a fun family experience as there was 16 of us adults who went! BUT more time was spent standing in line for the bathrooms and the concessions than sitting in the seats! Not good!! Some family members went to the concessions at the first intermission and didn't get back to their seats until only 3 mins remaining in the 2nd period. They lost a lot of beer sales because of the line ups....when you pay that much for a ticket you actually want to see the game.
rink placement was not shown correctly in sale. Price did not reflect the change. Event was great but ticket cost distribution was not great.
After the 30 - 45 min line outside,(3 hours before puck drop) the flow inside the building was horrendous, took us until 5:15 to get to our seats, since we decided to go what seems like the quickest route to find out the blocked it off unless you were buying merch. So back the other way we go. To get bottle necked by another merch booth to the point there was no movement in the line for 20 min. Should have had a better plan for merch booths not being by entrances. Also, the food ran out. Weak in my opinion stood in line for 25 min to get to the front to find out the only thing they had left was some stale nachos. Only bonus was the fact the Oilers actually managed to win.
Amazing seats way up top. Secure tickets. The even was amazing from the opening shows to playing la Bamba baby
we were seated in NW and by second period concession had run out of burgers and waters -waited in line and didn't find out to at counter...
Overall a good game and product. Very sad that the alumni games was cancelled by the NHL.
Everything was good until we got to the site there was almost no communication outside to let people know where to enter Security was slow and information prior to the event was very poor about allowable items. Our group didn’t have any issues but saw lots that did.
