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IT'S GOING TO BE A COLD ONE ON NEW YEARS DAY FOR THE WINTER CLASSIC! IT WILL BE HELD 1 EASTERN AT CITI FIELD IN NEW YORK!....NEW YORK—It took 10 years for the NHL Winter Classic to make its New York City debut, but the long, icy road to Monday’s game between the Rangers and Sabres at Citi Field actually dates to before the inaugural Classic in Buffalo on Jan. 1, 2008.The original idea was hatched in the mid-2000s, when a plan to bring the first Winter Classic to Yankee Stadium was all but laughed out of the Bronx.Jon Miller, NBC Sports’ president of programming and a founding father of the event, envisioned a game that would pit the Bruins against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium on Jan. 1, 2005, to celebrate NBC’s new partnership with the NHL.!