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

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.

NHL.com appears to be working sporadically on and off, which is leading many fans to be concerned that it could lead to more problems for tonight's crucial Game 4 between the Panthers and Oilers.

The puck is set to drop in Sunrise, Florida at 8 PM ET tonight, and fans, along with Gary Bettman, sure hope that everything runs according to plan.