People have been praising Arena workers for the spotless Arena. Workers come by and pick up litter at every turn. And supposedly, skating fans are a tidy bunch, compared to hockey and Shock football fans.

I was hoping to interview two of the maintenance workers this afternoon for one of my snapshots, and I even had two women picked out. But Kevin Twohig, the man in charge, said no to the interviews.

He said the Arena’s more than 500 workers are all in it together and focusing on just one or two wouldn’t be fair. He wants the community to focus on the event, not the employees of the Arena.

But kudos to those cleaners anyway. They’ve been getting lots of praise.