PPG Paints Arena, Home of the Pittsburgh Penguins

​With the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals potentially ending tonight, it seems like the right time to share our night during the “Midwest Winter” trip when we got to see a team that isn’t there this year but has been each of the last two years.  NHL games are sneaky expensive.  I expect it from NFL games since they only have 8 home games a year, but NHL teams have 41, so you’d think it would be less pricey.  However, they do have less seating, and with the Penguins being the two-time defending Stanley Cup champs with arguably the best player in the league playing for them, I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised by the fact that they have a loyal following that drive up the prices.  We’d been told at the Steelers game the night before that Penguins games were even better than Steelers games.  We were dubious after all the fun we’d had at Heinz, but we remained open to being surprised by PPG Paints Arena!

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