According to the Pens message board, the Penguins/Stanley Cup thing was meant to mock the protest.
I also heard some Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt students came out to counter protest in Oakland.
I also heard some Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt students came out to counter protest in Oakland."
You're probably right about that. They were pretty funny. They kept laughing and chanting "Let's Go Pens". It was almost a carnival atmosphere.
I heard the same thing about the Pitt students ridiculing the protestors and telling them to go home. I think they were expecting a friendlier bunch of locals like Seattle with the WTO thing or London.
LOL...those kids with the Cup had to be yunzers from Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Oakland (waaaaay south of Forbes—where I grew up). Tough crowd...don’t want to spend their weekend boarding up their mom’s living room window.