Thursday night’s game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Anaheim Ducks was expected to be an average regular season game, but the night turned into a memorable one thanks to a pane of broken glass.
With 9:48 left to play in the second period, a pane of glass was broken near the netting. When the crew brought out a new piece to fix it, they discovered they didn’t have one which fit the required opening.
.@Avalanche You just HAD to break the glass near the netting.
— Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) January 20, 2017
Live update from @HondaCenter. Thrilling @AnaheimDucks action. pic.twitter.com/il6Tb0lj5C
— Danielle Weinberg (@DWeinberg8) January 20, 2017
According to the Avalanche broadcast, a new piece of glass had to be cut in order to fit the opening which ended up causing a lengthy delay. This led to the officials meeting with the coaches and calling for the second intermission to begin even though there was still 9:48 remaining in the period.
The third period would then feature the remaining 9:48, a dry scrape and then the two teams would play the final 20 minutes.
An update:
We'll play 9:48 of the remaining 2nd period.
Dry scrape.
The final 20 minutes of the third period.
— Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) January 20, 2017
To pass the time during the delay, the two teams had some fun on Twitter while discussing Stranger Things.
https://twitter.com/AnaheimDucks/status/822309308318633985
You just never know what’s going to happen at a hockey game.
