• Outdoor game delayed by the sun.

Sun becomes enemy at NHL game in Tahoe We just couldn’t let this stuff go …

The setting was spectacular but the ice conditions were far from it, leading to an extended delay between the first and second period of the outdoor game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Colorado Avalanche at Lake Tahoe.

The NHL decided to halt the game for more than eight hours on Saturday after bright sun led to poor ice conditions that had players and officials repeatedly falling because of holes on the ice.

“We concluded after consulting with our ice makers and both teams that we didn’t think it was safe or appropriate to continue this game at this time,” Commissioner Gary Bettman said.

The game was halted after the first period at 12:55 p.m. and Bettman said the plan was to play the final two periods starting at 9 p.m.

Bettman said some players wanted to keep playing while others didn’t, but the final decision was made in consultation with the union because of safety.

“It’s probably a good decision they moved it to tonight,” Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog

said on NBC. “We’ll be ready to go.”

Crews were working on the ice just before the opening faceoff and issues kept cropping up throughout the period.

The ice took away from the spectacular setting for the game, which is being played on a makeshift rink on the 18th fairway of a golf course on the shore of Lake Tahoe, with snow-covered mountains in the background.

It snowed overnight and into the morning before the sun came out and caused problems the NHL couldn’t deal with.

“We’ve done over 30 (outdoor) games and we never had a problem quite like this,” Bettman said. “We played in rain, we played in snow. Sunshine has always been our enemy. We’ve postponed and delayed games because of sun glare.”

The Avalanche led the game 1-0 on a goal by Samuel Girard.

The NHL announced today’s game between Boston and Philadelphia will be moved back by more than five hours. The game at Edgewood Tahoe Resort will now start at 4:30 p.m.

Trivia question

Happy birthday to former Torrey Pines two-sport star Chad

Hutchinson, who turns 44 today. Hutchinson played football and baseball at Stanford, and made both the NFL and major league baseball. In which was his career the longest?

They said it

• From Chris Calarco, commenting on a Facebook page for Buffalo fans, after the Sabres got shut out at home for their fourth straight loss: “I bought a cardboard cutout to honor my aunt who passed away. Can I come pick it up so she doesn’t have to watch this any more?”

From Tim Hunter of WRKO Radio, in Everett, Wash., on the first day of spring training: “The day that pitchers and catchers start complaining about having to come back sooner than the rest of the team.”

Trivia answer

Hutchinson made it into three games with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2001, pitching four innings and allowing 11 earned runs without recording a decision. He then left baseball for the NFL, where helasted three seasons, two with Dallas and one with Chicago. He was 3-11 as a starter, completing 53.3 percent of his passes with 11 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.