The Anaheim Ducks and the Colorado Avalanche couldn’t finish the second period of their game on Thursday night.

It was a pane in the glass.

Defenseman Eric Gelinas of the Avalanche smacked a shot off the glass behind the Ducks’ goal, leaving a significant crack in it. The referees blew play dead, and thus began a comical delay as the Honda Center crew attempted to fix it.

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The players stood on the ice, chins on sticks, waiting to play. The goalies attempted to stay flexible.

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The arena workers couldn’t get the broken glass out. After they finally did, they needed to have a new piece of glass cut to fit the space behind the goal.

Here is what's happening right now. Measuring glass in Anaheim. This is insane!!@Avalanche pic.twitter.com/5fVx7LQ9KK — Kyle Keefe (@kylekeefetv) January 20, 2017





The on-ice officials finally decided to send the players to the dressing rooms and proceed under Rule 77.3, which states that “if a delay takes place with more than five minutes remaining in the first or second period, the referee will order the next regular intermission to be taken.”

So the remaining 9:48 of the second period was played as the start of the third. Then there was a dry scrape. And then the third period was played.

In total, the delay last around 45 minutes.

Anaheim won the game with 2:02 left on a Nick Ritchie goal, leaving the Avalanche feeling … shattered.

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Greg Wyshynski is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter. His book, TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK, is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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