The 2018 NHL Playoffs were the most-successful ever for Winnipeg, both in terms of its hockey team and the positive reputation the city earned from across the continent.

The Winnipeg Whiteout Street Party, which included nine separate events throughout six weeks last spring, saw 120,500 total fans attend one of the largest-ever multi-day public outdoor gathering in the city’s history. This figure does not include the 15,000 fans watching each game inside Bell MTS Place, or the thousands of fans watching each game live in one of the city’s restaurants, bars or other gathering places.

~ Economic Development Winnipeg



Matt Schaubroeck, corporate communications manager with Economic Development Winnipeg, confirms planning is underway for the street parties to celebrate and watch the Winnipeg Jets in the NHL playoffs.  “We’re early in the planning stages for what a Whiteout might look like for 2019

~CBC News

Last year there were 5 large mobile screens, the largest one being 23 feet tall and 39 feet long, 165 portable toilets, and 15 food vendors serving a variety of local delicacies and comfort foods serving the crowd.