Some female Oilers fans during Sunday's Stanley Cup Playoffs game against the Ducks were "surprised to find women’s bathrooms had been converted to men’s, causing their wait times to increase," according to Sarah Kraus of GLOBALNEWS.ca. Earlier in the playoffs, male fans had "complained about lengthy lines for washrooms during Oilers playoff games." Oilers Entertainment Group "attempted to cut down on the wait times by adding a staff member to the washrooms to help point out empty stalls and putting sticks on the floor to assist fans in knowing where to line up." Rogers Place GM Susan Darrington said, "For playoffs, what we’re seeing is we’re getting predominantly men in here -- the more exciting the hockey gets, I think the less guys are willing to give up their tickets. So we’ve adjusted our plans and we flipped a restroom on our main and on our upper concourse to be more available for men." Oilers fan Jacqueline Comer "estimated she got into a bathroom line on the upper level about two minutes into the intermission and spent about 25 minutes waiting to use the washroom." Darrington said, "We clicker count, we’ve got people watching the lines and again, we’re studying them and doing everything we can operationally to make it as comfortable as we can for our fans." She said that staff "survey season-ticket holders to try and get an idea of how many men are coming to a game compared to women." Comer said, "It just felt like we were on the other end of the scale for us in terms of what fans were important" (GLOBALNEWS.ca, 5/2).
