Nearly 16 years after it first hosted the game, Wrigley Field welcomes back the NHL Winter Classic this week as the Chicago Blackhawks take on the St. Louis Blues.

The Wrigley Field that will host the Discover NHL Winter Classic between the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues will look much the same on New Year's Eve as it did on Jan. 1, 2009, when the home of the Chicago Cubs first hosted the game,

As a chilly mist hovered over Wrigley Field on Friday afternoon, construction workers moved boxes across a large graphic of ivy where the third-base line normally would be. Four days before a Tuesday afternoon puck drop for the NHL Winter Classic,