The Rangers and Devils are now tied at two games apiece in the Eastern Conference Finals, but one Rangers fan is still miserable over Game 3. Stephanie Gorman says that in the wake of the Rangers' victory, three Devils fans attacked her: "The one guy spit at me, all over my face and jersey. Another guy pushed me and right after that, a third guy grabbed me around the neck and pushed me, very hard."
Gorman says she and her boyfriend were exiting an elevator at the Prudential Center in Newark, chanting with other Rangers fans. She shared photographs of her bruises and claims that security was unresponsive. She said, "I was shaken up, crying, hyperventilating... They’re yelling in my face, if I don’t calm down, they’re gonna call police."
However, Jim Crann, head of Prudential Center security (where violence after a Red Hot Chili Peppers prompted heightened police presence around the arena), told WCBS 2, "Witnesses said the woman was aggressive, combative and was being restrained by her male companion. She appeared to have been drinking." Gorman says that while she did have "a few beers, three," she denies being drunk or abusive.
Gorman's father, a retired Jersey City firefighter and Rangers fan, told NBC New York, "The fact that somebody would spit on a woman because of a sports game is appalling. They have to be human beings. There has to be a certain sense of adulthood." Tell that to the Flyers fans who beat up Rangers fans after the Winter Classic.
