There were congratulations.
And then corrections.
All before Calgary Flames rearguard Brett Kulak had an opportunity Saturday to scroll through his incoming text messages.
“There were ones that I could see from the time, it must have been right after they had announced it as mine, and they sad, ‘Oh, congrats on your first goal,’ ” Kulak said with a chuckle. “And then there were some other replies that said, ‘Oh, they took it away.’ It was kind of a weird night like that.”
It was, indeed, a weird one.
With a delayed penalty call coming against the Flames in Saturday’s opening stanza at Rogers Arena, Canucks winger Loui Eriksson watched in horror as his errant pass slid through the neutral zone and all the way into Vancouver’s vacated cage for an own-goal.