The jokes write themselves here.
The jokes write themselves here.
It seemed like too hilarious of a coincidence to be true. With the Tampa Bay Lightning in town, there were electricity jokes galore, of course, but then the NHL scriptwriters decided to have a sense of humor and make it so the Wells Fargo Center lost power.
Several lights suddenly went out, the scoreboard went black, and play was immediately stopped as everyone scrambled to try and figure out what happened. Broadcasts for the Flyers and the Lightning
Play was eventually able to resume, with the refs keeping time by hand and having the end of the period signaled by banging on the glass. During the intermission, electricity flickered on and off, as social media was overrun with jokes and memes about the strange situation.
Wells Fargo president Phil Laws provided an update during the second period intermission, assuring fans that the ice has a chiller so it would remain intact and playable, they had multiple points of contact with the NHL about the issue, and that the outage was seemingly caused by a transmitter circuit blowing out.
Most of the power did come back by the third period, but the scoreboard remained blacked out.
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