ANAHEIM >> He didn’t have time to wonder what was wrong with this picture. Kevin Bieksa got the puck and looked up and saw the landscape of Antarctica. Nothing but permafrost, as far as he could see.
Well, he did see Ryan Getzlaf, motoring toward the opposite blue line, but he didn’t see any opponents. No Calgary Flames. It was an odd time to hold a team meeting.
“We stopped playing,” Calgary coach Glen Gulutzan said. “We did that twice in this game.”
Bieksa fired the pass to Getzlaf at the Calgary blue line. Getzlaf was joined by Rickard Rakell as five Flames poured out of the bench to replace the truants.