{"id":603235,"date":"2026-04-24T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:01:10","slug":"fan-throws-rotisserie-chicken-on-ice-during-ducks-oilers-game-causes-costly-delay-during-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603235\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan throws rotisserie chicken on ice during Ducks-Oilers game, causes costly delay during Game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certain traditions around the NHL involving fans throwing items onto the ice, but it\u2019s highly unlikely that someone started a new one with what they tossed over the boards during Game 2 of the current Anaheim Ducks<\/a>\u2013Edmonton Oilers<\/a> first-round series.<\/p>\n

With 5:51 remaining in the third period of a tied 4-4 game, an Oilers fan chucked what appears to be either an entire rotisserie chicken or cooked duck onto the ice at Rogers Place. Play was paused for \u201cobjects on ice,\u201d as the ice crew worked to clean up the many pieces of bird carcass now strewn about Anaheim\u2019s defensive zone.<\/p>\n

The bird took flight just moments after Oilers defenseman Josh Samanski<\/a> had scored to tie the game at four goals apiece. According to the Daily Hive<\/a>, an Oilers fan wearing a white jersey was seen being escorted out of his seat shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n

To make matters even worse, the delay in action seemingly halted Edmonton\u2019s momentum, giving Anaheim what amounted to a free timeout. Just 59 seconds later, Cutter Gauthier<\/a> would score the game-winning goal for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Rogers Place is weirdly no stranger to food being thrown on the ice and affecting play, as just last season, a full tray of nachos was chucked over the glass<\/a> during an Oilers game against the Washington Capitals<\/a>. Just moments after the chips landed in the Caps\u2019 defensive zone, Corey Perry<\/a> rifled a one-timer past goaltender Logan Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve never seen that before,\u201d Thompson\u00a0said, amused<\/a>. \u201cObviously, I gotta play to the whistle. That one\u2019s on me. I talked to them earlier. I don\u2019t know what the official ruling on that is. But yeah, just play to the whistle, obviously, if there\u2019s stuff on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Oilers fans have also previously thrown slabs of raw Alberta beef onto the ice during past playoff runs.<\/p>\n

If Oilers fans aren\u2019t soon stopped from bringing food to games, it appears a full six-course meal could find its way onto the team\u2019s playing surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are certain traditions around the NHL involving fans throwing items onto the ice, but it\u2019s highly unlikely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-603235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}