Kings' clock has stopped before

There is a new wrinkle to "Clockgate," the controversial last-minute time stoppage that occurred in Los Angeles's Staples Center during the Kings' victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday.

According to footage (above) from the Kings’ Jan. 21 game against the visiting Colorado Avalanche, the game clock stops twice in the final four seconds of the Avalanche’s 3-1 victory.

Watch as the scoreboard clock pauses at 3.9 seconds and then again at 2.1 seconds.

The NHL is still investigating a scoreboard error that gave the Los Angeles Kings a win over the Blue Jackets on Wednesday.

Kings defenceman Drew Doughty scored the winning goal with less than one second to play in regulation to lift his team to a 3-2 victory. Upon review, the puck crosses the goal line with somewhere between 0.6 and 0.4 seconds remaining on the official clock.

However, when the Blue Jackets looked at video after the game, they discovered the clock froze for roughly a second prior to Doughty's goal, meaning time should have expired.

On Thursday, senior executive vice-president of hockey operations Colin Campbell acknowledged there was an error and said the league was “asking tough questions” about the incident.