The Chicago Blackhawks were scheduled to face the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday evening in New York but a significant snow storm has pushed that game back 24 hours.
About seven hours before the scheduled puckdrop, the Sabres announced that the game has been postponed to Thursday evening at 6 p.m. CT.
This seemed like the inevitable outcome after a press conference with local officials in Buffalo earlier in the day:
That game was supposed to be a national broadcast on TNT, with the league now opting to broadcast a game in a climate where snow probably isn’t in the forecast:
This was the forecast from Tuesday morning on the massive snowstorm that hit Buffalo and continues dumping snow in the area: