Islanders proposal gone awry: Viral video shows woman running after shirtless man proposes at NHL game in New York

ELMONT, New York– A video of a marriage proposal at an NHL game has gone viral on social media — but for the wrong reason.

The proposal came Thursday at a New York Islanders home game and quickly went south.

Cell phone footage from a spectator shows a shirtless man in the stands. He gets down on one knee and proposes to his girlfriend.

The crowd cheers her to say yes, but she doesn’t. She then escapes by running up the stairs, away from the crowd.

The man returns to his seat and calmly takes a sip of his beer.

The video has been viewed more than 1.4 million times on Twitter.

Some people have speculated that the incident was staged, noting that the man did not go after the woman when she ran away.