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The NHL’s extremely late Lake Tahoe game created some haunting scenes

Playing hockey in the dead of night.

Everybody dunked on the NHL on Saturday when its plan to play a game on the shores of Lake Tahoe failed because the sun came out, reflected off all the white snow and made it both impossible to see and impossible for the ice to stay ice.

How was the league supposed to predict this well-understood and completely expected scientific phenomenon?!?!

Yes, the NHL probably should have had a better plan in place, but ultimately I think the league deserves some credit for trying something unique in the first place. Sports has been disrupted in so many ways over the past year. We’re accustomed to adapting by now, no?

Besides, the fact that the final two periods of the Avalanche-Golden Knights game was delayed until 12 p.m. ET (or 9 local in Tahoe) meant that we got interesting photos of a different sort.

There are no mountains rising in the background. No shimmering lake. Instead the game was played against a pitch-black backdrop — and won by Colorado, 3-2, in a contest that ended up taking 10 hours and 37 minutes to complete.

Here’s how it looked once it finally got going again.

NHL Outdoors game at Lake Tahoe was postponed due to the sun, and fans had so many jokes

“Does the NHL not know what the sun does?”

Oh, sun! Cursed sun!

The NHL was slated to play an outdoor game between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Colorado Avalanche as part of their outdoors weekend, with a game between the Bruins and Flyers scheduled to follow on Sunday.

They picked gorgeous Lake Tahoe as the destination for the game, and it was a truly beautiful sight to see.

That was the problem. It was too beautiful. The crystal clear day made it so that the sun was beating down directly onto the ice, and before the game was slated to start. they had to postpone the thing. YOU CURSED SUN!!!!

The game will now be played tonight at midnight ET on NBC SN, and that’s all well and good, but what’s really funny here is that the NHL had their marquee weekend ruined by the sun. Yes, fans had jokes, and yes, I laughed at all of them.

Read them below: