The National Hockey League says Wednesday night’s game between the Calgary Flames and Los Angeles Kings, scheduled to be played at crypto.com arena in the southern California city, is being postponed.
In a post on social media, the NHL’s Department of Public Relations says the game is being “postponed in light of the devastating effects of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
The league says a makeup date will be announced as soon as one can be confirmed.
There are three major fires are burning in the metropolitan Los Angeles area, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
At least two people have been killed and more than a thousand structures have been destroyed.
The Flames began their road trip on Tuesday in Anaheim and were supposed to play the second game of a back-to-back series on Wednesday night, Jan. 8, against the Kings.
Flames TV host Brendan Parker told Global News they could smell smoke and see it in the air when they arrived at their hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
“It’s obviously a really scary situation,” said Parker. “I think just seeing the magnitude of the fires around the area. As we were walking to the rink here in L.A. you could just see big pieces of ash that are falling in downtown L.A., so you can sense just how big these fires really are.”
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Parker said the team was still preparing like it was a normal game day when word came from the NHL around 11 this morning that the game was being postponed, which he called “the right decision.”
Parker said the team is hoping to make arrangements to return to Calgary Wednesday evening, but travel arrangements are more complicated than normal this trip because it’s also the Flames Moms trip with mothers of the players and staff on the road with them.
Challenges aside, Parker said the Flames are “just hoping for the best” for the tens of thousands of people who have been affected by the fires.
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