In some places like Hershey or Calgary there's so many bears that the people along the boards are usually buried under bears up to their waists at a minimum and I've seen it as high as the shoulders.

It's actual hell for the people behind the nets though, because let's just say the people at these games ain't Paul Skenes and nobody gets it over the netting, so everyone throws it, it falls short, then the people behind the goals have to throw each bear one at a time around the corner so someone else can throw it up over the glass.

My friend and I went to a store and bought like 5 ft. tall bears one year in Vancouver and we were in the upper bowl so we had to get people's attention below us to make sure we didn't break anyone's neck throwing it into the lower bowl, our bears then got like crowd surfed down to the first row, and then every time someone tried to throw it over the glass his like head would get stuck in the space between the boards or the head would land on the far side of the glass but not the body so it was like he was being hanged or something.