DENVER \u2014 An excited fan banged on the glass behind the Los Angeles Kings bench after a Scott Wedgewood penalty-shot save in the second period of Tuesday\u2019s Game 2 between the Kings and Colorado Avalanche, leading to the pane breaking and shards showering Kings coach D.J. Smith.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the penalty shot, whoever the guy (was) just kept pushing and pushing and pushing,\u201d said Smith, who didn\u2019t have any visible cuts. \u201cI looked back because it hit me a bunch of times, and then it broke.\u201d<\/p>\n
A trio of nearby fans said the fan was in the second row and reached over the front-row seats and hit the top of the pane.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was basically just wailing on it as hard as he could,\u201d said Avalanche fan Mike McNish, who went to the game with his 13-year-old daughter, Madison, and was sitting in the front row to the right of the broken pane.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt dropped straight down,\u201d added Kings fan Kyler Croskrey, who was to the left of the pane. \u201cThen we heard it crumble in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kings bench was not pleased with the development.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the coaches were a little upset with the guy who did it,\u201d McNish said. \u201cSaid a couple choice words to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA bunch of the players were cussing,\u201d Croskrey added. \u201cThey were like, \u2018What the f\u2014? Jacks\u2014.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Croskrey said she believed the glass-banging fan was initially moved to a new section after the pane broke. An Avalanche spokesperson told The Athletic that after reviewing the footage, staff determined that the fan didn\u2019t do anything ejection-worthy.<\/p>\n
The broken glass led to a 19-minute delay. Half a dozen stadium workers shoveled glass away and eventually added a new pane. The Kings all left the bench to avoid the broken glass, with Smith and the coaches returning to the dressing room. Players from both teams milled around the ice. At one point, a group of Kings players knelt in their offensive zone, chatting. Opponents Nazem Kadri and Drew Doughty, both from London, Ontario, at one point chatted while skating around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think really anybody was frustrated at that point,\u201d Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog said. \u201cI think maybe the only thing was that there\u2019s so many bodies skating around the ice, so it did wear the ice out a little bit for the rest of (the period). \u2026 Doesn\u2019t happen every day, so you just deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually (it breaks) on the ice, and it can take a while,\u201d Colorado coach Jared Bednar added. \u201cThat\u2019s a different one, but stuff happens. Fans get excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
The arena DJ played lively music to keep fans entertained, and the video board showed Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton. The crowd erupted when the stadium workers installed the new pane of glass.<\/p>\n
Smith returned to the bench after the delay.<\/p>\n
Wedgewood made his penalty shot save on Quinton Byfield, who drew a hook on Cale Makar after the star defenseman misplayed a puck at the blue line on an early-period Avalanche power play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 An excited fan banged on the glass behind the Los Angeles Kings bench after a Scott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[144,5,145,4,465,466],"class_list":{"0":"post-557767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-los-angeles-kings","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-draft","13":"tag-nhl-entry-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116447226383325818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}