{"id":445622,"date":"2026-02-04T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445622\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:30:18","slug":"penguins-fan-punches-spectator-while-being-escorted-out-of-ice-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445622\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Fan Punches Spectator While Being Escorted Out of Ice Hockey Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ice hockey fan who was getting kicked out of a game on Tuesday, February 3, made sure to get a few punches in before she left the arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage taken by Nick Hirshon shows a woman wearing a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey and hat at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, being escorted out of a game between the Penguins and the New York Islanders on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the woman starts to walk up the stairs, a fan appears to start shouting at her. She then turns to give them the finger, and as she gets close, she starts to punch the other person, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Security personnel then grabbed the woman, separating her from the spectator, and led her and another Penguins fan with her up the stairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattCaputo\/status\/2018890008925479290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:another video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">another video<\/a> posted on X showing the same incident, someone wrote: \u201cFirst time I ever saw someone in a penguin hat punch someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Islanders beat the Penguins 5-4, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/pittsburgh-penguins-new-york-islanders-game-recap-february-3-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NHL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NHL<\/a>. Credit: Nick Hirshon via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ice hockey fan who was getting kicked out of a game on Tuesday, February 3, made sure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[38732,5,54189,3328,159,4,54188,118,1469,100,5216,2171],"class_list":["post-445622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-elmont","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-fan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-nick-hirshon","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-pittsburghpenguins","tag-the-penguins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116014024772116356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}