Hundreds of empty seats stood out like very sore thumbs at the top of the upper bowls at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday night, a fact that is sad, disgraceful and embarrassing for both Ottawa and the Senators organization.
It also likely led to very sore thumbs for arena employees who, eight minutes after the opening face-off, were ordered to walk around picking up all the extra souvenir wave towels. Make sure nobody gets two, right? Save them for Saturday.
Seriously, what’s going on here people? How is it possible that the first game of Round 2 was not sold out?