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The 2011 NHL Winter Classic (known via corporate sponsorship as the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic) was the fourth edition of the annual outdoor ice hockey game held by the National Hockey League (NHL) as a regular season game. The Pittsburgh Penguins hosted the Washington Capitals at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on January 1, 2011 at 8:00 pm US ET,[1] having originally been scheduled for 1:00 pm[2] The game was telecast on NBC in the USA, CBC (English) and RDS (French) in Canada. Pittsburgh native Jackie Evancho performed the Star Spangled Banner and Pittsburgh sports legends Mario Lemieux, Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis presided over the ceremonial dropping of the puck, and during the second intermission Harris and Bettis hosted a fan event at the outside rink.[3] The 2011 Winter Classic was the second time the Penguins participated in an outdoor NHL game. The Penguins visited the Buffalo Sabres for the inaugural Winter Classic in 2008.[4] Most notably, the Classic pitted two recent number-one draft picks against each other: Penguins center Sidney Crosby (2005) and Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin (2004); both players entered the league in the same year, 2005, due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout and have helped fuel the fire in a significant rivalry between the two teams that had been growing since the early 1990s.