The viral incident, shared on X by another attendee, started when a puck went up into the netting during the second period of the Penguins' game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday, Jan. 12. The boy shook the glass boards to bring the puck down as a souvenir, but the crowd watched as an older man grabbed it instead.

A Pittsburgh Penguins fan was booed from PPG Paints Arena during a game against the Tampa Bay LIghtning on Sunday, January 12, after he swiped a puck from a child, according to a local news report. In an interview with KDKA-TV,

Philadelphia wasn’t the only city in Pennsylvania plagued by unruly sports fans over the weekend. Another fan-related issue went viral involving attendees at the Penguins-Lightning game at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Sunday after one fan stole a puck from a young supporter.

After two periods of dominance against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night, the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins crumbled in the third period en route to a costly 4-2 defeat that capped a maddening homestand in which they won just once in five attempts.

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-2 loss against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday at PPG Paints Arena was a fitting conclusion to a dreadful five-game homestand that saw them go 1-3-1. This sequence of games on their own rink commanded considerable gravity.