I have a dream for Yankee Stadium’s perfect farewell.

Joe DiMaggio hits a 1-2 fastball from Joseph Stalin over the left field fence for a walk-off home run, and the Yankees beat the Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series and save democracy.

But there are a lot of reasons why that dream will never be a reality, not the least being that Stalin’s been dead for 55 years.

Yankee Stadium deserves to go out with a bang, and as much as Yankee fans might hate to admit it, the odds of the last game being anything other than a loss, or a meaningless game, are slim.

That’s why a Rangers-Bruins hockey game on New Year’s Day would be the perfect send-off to the House that Ruth Built.

Yankee Stadium is bigger than the Yankees. It’s not about a baseball team. It’s a tribute to New York sports. The Giants played there. Johnny Unitas played there. Joe Lewis fought there. Billy Joel sang there.

The pope held Mass there.

Does a cathedral of American sport, one so ingrained in our culture that it could hold his holiness the pope, deserve to have its last game be a Division Series loss to the Indians, or worse, a meaningless regular season game.

And what if 2004 had been The Stadium’s final season. Would the image of Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore and the Red Sox celebrating on Yankee Stadium be the final image Yankee fans want?

Holding an outdoor hockey game, something the NHL has only done once in America, ensures the final shining moment of Yankee Stadium would be a special one. Henrik Lundqvist and the boys in blue bundling up and defending Yankee Stadium from Boston would be a fitting end to a stadium that has seen Don Larsen throw a perfect game in the Series, Aaron Boone hit a walk-off home run, and Bono singing about places where the streets have no name.

Yeah, U2 has played concerts at Yankee Stadium too.

It wouldn’t be disgracing the memory of Yankee Stadium to have 50,000 New Yorkers watching hockey outside, the way it’s supposed to be played, against an Original Six rival from the hated “City on a Hill.”

Outdoor hockey games are reviving interests in hockey and there’s no better place than New York City, “The Capital of the World,” for two hockey teams with as much history as the Bronx Bombers to keep the trend going.

This January’s Winter Classic in Buffalo was a spectacle in itself, coming down to a shootout where Sidney Crosby won with the only goal. Throw in Yankee Stadium and a New York-Boston rivalry, and this game could be even more memorable.

The guarantee of Jaromir Jagr vs. Boston, or the potential for Grady Sizemore or Jimmy Fallon. It’s your choice, Yankees fans.