Scott Wedgewood Made One Save and Avalanche Fans Shattered Glass Onto the Kings Bench

Things got wild at Ball Arena on Tuesday night during Game 3 of the Kings-Avalanche first-round matchup. After Quinton Byfield got stopped on a penalty shot by Colorado goaltender Scott Wedgewood with 16:48 left in the second period, the celebration in the stands got so loud and intense that a glass pane behind the Los Angeles bench literally gave way. This wasn't a small crack either. The whole thing shattered and rained down on interim Kings coach D.J. Smith, who had to duck for cover and brush glass shards off his suit before heading to the locker room.

A 19-Minute Cleanup Job Nobody Expected

The Avalanche had to bring out the heavy equipment for this one. Shovels and buckets came out as the crew cleaned up all the fragments scattered across the LA bench. Meanwhile, the Kings players just stood around on the ice waiting for a new pane to get installed. The whole delay lasted 19 minutes with the score still locked at 0-0. Not ideal for maintaining momentum, but at least everyone was safe once Smith got the glass off his suit and came back from the tunnel a few minutes later.

Even the Avalanche Captain Was Stunned

Gabriel Landeskog, Colorado's captain, talked to ESPN after the chaos and made it clear he'd never seen anything like it before. "It was loud there when 'Wedgy' made that save and fans got a little too excited," he said. That's one way to describe fans celebrating so hard they destroyed arena infrastructure. The save itself was impressive, but this is a moment that's going to be remembered more for what happened in the stands than what happened on the ice.

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