The Winter Classic has been a staple of the National Hockey League since 2008.

That was the "snow globe" game in Buffalo. Outdoors again, the sport's natural habitat, the game took players and fans alike back to its origins on frozen ponds in Canada. The game was magical and entranced a nationwide audience in the U.S.  

Fourteen more Winter Classics have been played, none capturing the magic of that original or the imagination of television viewers. And there have been some problems. If the weather doesn't cooperate just right you get rain or slushy, dangerous ice for the players. Or, like yesterday's in Minneapolis, the weather can cooperate too much, much too much. ESPN:

The official faceoff temperature at Target Field, the home of the Minnesota Twins, was minus-5.7 degrees.

To state the obvious it was the coldest game in NHL history. The Winter Classic will continue. ESPN reported that those in attendance were dancing in the aisles of Target Field.