Closing Yankee Stadium With A Hockey Game?

If reports are accurate, that's exactly what will happen. The NHL, Yankees, and the City of New York are in talks to have Yankee Stadium host an NHL game between the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings.

Now, whispers are getting louder that historic Yankee Stadium will host a rare outdoor National Hockey League game in late 2008 or early 2009 featuring the Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings.

Several news outlets are reporting today that a deal is in the works that would close the 85-year-old cathedral with skates instead of spikes.

"It's something we've spoken both to the Yankees and to the city about," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the New York Daily News. "But it's not a done deal. There are still other possibilities and a lot of moving pieces."

But Chris Chelios, a Detroit Red Wings defenseman, told the Detroit Free Press that he understands the Red Wings will visit the Rangers for the Yankee Stadium closer and that it is a "done deal."

"I heard it's a done deal already, I heard Detroit is playing that game, the last event actually in Yankee Stadium," Chelios said."Not just because of the history of Yankee Stadium, but to be able to be a part of the last event ever to be played is going to be something special."

It would definitely be quite the event, but it should close with a baseball game - it only seems fitting.