they are not trained to eject troublesome people and are definitely not paid enough for that
I wasn't at the game, so can't comment on this individual situation.
I'm just curious - do we need to look at additional security for these games then if the stewards 'aren't paid enough'?
As if they are unable to deal with these kinds of situations, there's no point in them being there, they are effectively indoor lollipop ladies - i refer back to the BBT days, where all the stewards were 100% VOLUNTARY and would deal with troublesome fans.
Since the new rink (and IIRC the later days in the BBT) they sacked off all the volunteers to pay people to do the same job with a new security firm coming in (i think?).
We have Security, and we have stewards. These types of situations should be dealt with.
HOWEVER,
shoe on the other foot, there are radicals in every sport, our usual week in week out game is very family friendly; and comparing ice hockey to football (who would even do that...) there are HUNDREDS of police officers at every football game and double that the amount of Stewards, and there is still "antisocial behavior" amongst fans.
Therefore i don't agree that we just accept it will be a problem for us, but in small chunks (1-2 games in the CHL) I think slightly problematic away fans are not a big problem.