NHL Suffers Concerning Technical Difficulties Hours Ahead of Game 4 Puck Drop

Just a few hours before the puck is set to drop on Game 4 between the Oilers and Panthers, a global internet outage is affecting the NHL.com website.

Google's cloud was suffering from global outages on Thursday, as were other cloud-based services and many platforms on the World Wide Web.

Users on social media reported that several major internet services were experiencing disruptions due to Google cloud platforms, such as NHL.com's website.

The Downdetector website showed over 13,000 reported incidents for Google Cloud at around 2:30 p.m. ET.

Google's status page said the incident had caused problems for 13 of its cloud services, across the United States, Europe, as well as in Asia.

Other web services that appeared to suffer disruptions besides the NHL's website included Amazon's Twitch, CoreWeave's Weights and Biases, Elastic, GitLab, LangChain, Microsoft's GitHub, Replit, and Supabase.

These are just a few of the many sites that are currently down. Google Trends pointed to a spike in users searching "Firebase," which is one of Google's developer platforms for building and managing web as well as mobile apps. Google hasn't responded to a request for comment as of yet.