Skepticism Continues After Penguins Chose Eight for Ice Crew
August 1st, 2010 by Laura Falcon Leave a reply »This is a follow up on an article I wrote on July 10, after the Pittsburgh Penguins organization announced that they would be adding an "ice crew" to help clean the ice, interact with fans, and take part in other promotional activities .
Now that the tryouts are over, I decided I would take a look at the auditions that took place this weekend and see if newly acquired information would change my mind on the controversial addition to the organization.
After posting my article, I continued to read the reactions to this ice crew on sports blogs written by both men and women and I received roughly the same two reactions:
1) Outrage. Why would Pittsburgh do something so out of the character of the blue-collar city?
2) Indifference. Who cares? I'm going to the Consol Energy Center to watch the Pens play. As long as that happens, I don't care what occurs in between whistles.
The women's auditions took place over a span of two days. Day One of the tryouts took place on Saturday and saw nearly 80 women participate.
The process of narrowing down the group consisted of an on-ice portion and an off-ice portio ...
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