You packed the Jedi robe. A dignified garment. Excellent for delivering cryptic advice in a doorway, less convincing as your entire winter wardrobe for a January evening in Minnesota. Somewhere between choosing your boots and wondering whether a tauntaun would fit in a parking space, you arrive at a sensible conclusion: hockey. The Minnesota Wild are hosting Star Wars Night at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul on January 21, 2027, and suddenly that robe seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have brought.

The evening’s listed festivities run from 6:45pm to approximately 10:00pm, leaving ample opportunity to appreciate two pursuits that reward quick reflexes and inspire extremely specific opinions. You may understand the finer points of hockey. You may be prepared to explain, at considerable length, why the Millennium Falcon is worth the maintenance. Either way, there is something satisfying about putting this particular evening on the calendar. Keep the robe. Bring the coat.