Denver Post · Feb 9, 2020
Chambers: Ottawa Senators are in a sad state
Fred Chartrand, The Canadian Press via APCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The attendance at Thursday’s NHL game in Ottawa bordered on pathetic. In my 25 years of covering hockey, including the last 10 traveling regularly to NHL cities, the crowd of 11,465 that watched the Avalanche defeat the once-proud Senators 4-1 constituted the weakest home support I’ve ever seen.
This was Canada, where hockey rules. The national pastime is always a good time. But it felt like Sunrise, Fla., or Glendale, Ariz., where 12,000 isn’t abnormal in sunshine states at NHL arenas down the road from the nearest major city.