Opposing fans blocking seats during warm-ups
by Peng-win58 on 11/28/23PPG Paints Arena - PittsburghPPG paints arena is a great venue! Always a good game experience. The problem that happened was at the Toronto Maple Leafs game on 11/25. There were bus loads of maple leaf fans there for the game who were causing disturbances all over the arena, inside and outside. Outside of the arena, they were climbing on the Mario Lemieux statue. Inside the arena, in section 104, opposing fans were gathering by the hundreds to see the maple leafs warm up. The fans were blocking the flow of traffic for everyone else who had paid for tickets in that section. When we asked the ushers to help us to our seats, they replied with "good luck, there's lots of people down there!"We had to battle the hundreds of fans just to get to our seats that we had paid for! There was another family with small children that were trying to make their way down to their seats and fans were refusing to move for them. It was very disappointing in the PPG staff that they weren't making fans move. The fans that were watching were standing on the seats to lift themselves up higher and nobody could see. We yelled at the fans who were standing on seats to get down. Promoting this behavior and not holding fans accountable for the seats that they paid a lot of money for is completely unacceptable. We will not be returning for a game when the penguins play the Maple Leafs. This behavior puts safety at risk, especially when coming to a game with children, who can't barge their way through the mob of fans.