Consol was pulsing with music, the air horn blasting, the video boards blazing.
The markedly young crowd leaned into each other for selfies or asked ushers to take their pictures with rink and scoreboard as backdrop.
The Stanley Cup final Game 6 wasn’t live at Consol Energy Center, but the crowd was.
Joseph Truckley, 30, a U.S. Army specialist stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, just happened to be back home visiting his parents in Penn Hills this weekend and couldn’t resist the opportunity to bring his wife, Amanda, and their three daughters to the Stanley Cup final Game 6 viewing party at Consol Energy Center.