NHL coach narrowly avoids disaster as glass shatters behind bench

Los Angeles Kings caput manager D.J. Smith narrowly debar catastrophe successful Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Colorado Avalanche connected Tuesday night.

Raucous Avalanche fans banging connected the solid down Smith caused the pane to shatter aft Colorado goaltender Scott Wedgewood made a halt connected Quinton Byfield. Some pieces of solid rained down connected Smith. He covered his caput and brushwood the solid disconnected his suit earlier moving down the passageway to get checked out.

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Members of the Colorado Avalanche conversion unit transportation a caller portion of solid to the Los Angeles Kings seat during the 2nd play of Game 2 successful the archetypal circular of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs against the Colorado Avalanche successful Denver connected April 21, 2026. (Jack Dempsey/AP)

Smith was OK and helium returned to the game.

"Whoever the feline (was) conscionable kept pushing and pushing and pushing," helium called. "I looked backmost due to the fact that it deed maine a clump of times, past it broke."

The incidental delayed the crippled for astir 15 minutes. The people was adjacent astatine zero erstwhile the solid broke. Colorado yet picked up the 2-1 triumph successful overtime acknowledgment to Nicolas Roy’s game-winner. The Avalanche had a 2-0 bid lead.

Avalanche prima Gabriel Landeskog said helium was "loud" erstwhile Wedgewood made the prevention and admitted that the "fans got a small excessively excited."

Colorado Avalanche near helping Gabriel Landeskog argues a telephone with referee TJ Luxmore during the 2nd play of Game 2 successful the archetypal circular of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs against the Los Angeles Kings successful Denver connected April 21, 2026. (Jack Dempsey/AP)

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"There's thing you tin bash to power it. There's thing you tin bash astir it, truthful you conscionable woody with it," helium said of the delay. "I deliberation possibly the lone happening was that determination were truthful galore bodies connected the crystal that it (wore) the crystal retired a small spot for the remainder (of the period).

"I thought the crystal unit did a bully occupation and they did their champion to hole it arsenic accelerated arsenic possible. Doesn't hap each day."

Colorado caput manager Jared Bednar said the hold was a archetypal for him.

"That’s a antithetic one," Bednar said. "But, I mean, worldly happens. Fans get excited. Our guys were excited, competing hard. There was a clump of melees connected the crystal today. It felt similar playoff hockey."

Los Angeles Kings interim manager D.J. Smith talks with halfway Samuel Helenius during the archetypal play of Game 2 successful the archetypal circular of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs against the Colorado Avalanche successful Denver connected April 21, 2026. (Jack Dempsey/AP)

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Game 3 is acceptable for Thursday nighttime successful Los Angeles.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.