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At Sunday’s Edmonton Oilers playoff game at Rogers Place, some female fans were surprised to find women’s bathrooms had been converted to men’s, causing their wait times to increase.

Earlier in the playoffs, male fans had complained about lengthy lines for washrooms during Oilers playoff games.

The 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.

But on Sunday night, Rogers Place did something different, flipping women’s bathrooms to men’s in an attempt to reduce wait times for male fans.

“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,” said Susan Darrington, general manager of Rogers Place. “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.”

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Posted by Bags of Milk

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Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:43 pm to Bench McElroy

General consensus around Edmonton is that this is fine.

They switch the bathrooms around for more female centric concerts such as John Mayer so there is more women's washrooms.

Sidebar: the bathroom situation at Rogers place is a travesty for a brand new arena

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:47 pm to Bench McElroy

This is like something that never happens. Why are Edmonton men pissing like chicks?

I don't know how many stadiums I've been to but there has never been a line for men and the womens always has a line around the block.

We have troughs, women need stalls, it's not rocket science Edmonton.

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Posted by Bags of Milk

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Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:55 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

What are you talking about? Men can easily use a toilet while standing.

I've been to games at the stadium, whomever designed the bathroom situation was an idiot. The bathrooms have like 4 urinals and 2 stalls for 2 sections of people. The lineups for the bathrooms are crazy.

Makes sense that they'd switch a couple women's bathrooms over to alleviate the issue. There is way less women at the games than men. They switch them back after and as I stated before, switch men's into women's for more women-centric concerts.

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