NHL fan chugs beer after catching errant puck in wild hockey moment

One NHL instrumentality went supra and beyond Tuesday nighttime to make an epic hockey infinitesimal successful the 3rd play of a crippled betwixt the Colorado Avalanche and Anaheim Ducks.

A puck that was meant to beryllium passed down the crystal astatine the Ball Arena successful Denver flew retired the rink and into the stands adjacent the neutral zone. A instrumentality caught the puck, recovered the broadcast camera and began to chug a beer, overmuch to the delight of the location crowd.

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Colorado Avalanche near helping Gabriel Landeskog, center, is congratulated arsenic helium passes the squad container aft scoring a extremity against the Anaheim Ducks successful the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado led by a extremity successful that infinitesimal but scored 2 much aft the instrumentality got the assemblage pumped up. Martin Necas and Parker Kelly added the security goals to springiness the Avalanche a 4-1 win.

It was unclear if the added buzz gave the Avalanche the other oomph it needed to triumph the game, but they’ll instrumentality it.

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Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar, right, checks Anaheim Ducks halfway Jansen Harkins arsenic helium pursues the puck successful the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Gabriel Landeskog scored his archetypal extremity of the play and the archetypal regular-season extremity successful implicit 3 years. The left-winger missed the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons arsenic good arsenic the 2024-25 regular play aft undergoing a bid of genu surgeries.

The assemblage erupted erstwhile helium enactment the second-period extremity into the backmost of the net.

Anaheim got its lone extremity from Leo Carlsson, his 11th of the season.

The Avalanche snapped the Ducks’ seven-game winning streak. They improved to 16-1-2 successful their past 19 meetings against the Ducks.

Anaheim Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal makes a mitt prevention successful the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the Colorado Avalanche Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Colorado is 11-1-5 portion Anaheim is 11-4-1 this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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