Ottawa has fickle sports fans. Unsold tickets for the playoffs was indicated early, when they had 11,000 for an Arizona game in October.
People in Ottawa always have an excuse why to not go to the game. I lived there for 30 years and I heard them all. The location of the arena isn't that bad, especially if people live in the west or south end, or in Kanata, and a lot of people do.
For fata's sake, the team is in the second round of the playoffs and they still make excuses to not go to the games.
When I lived there I bought partial season tickets (12 games) for five years until the lockout when I gave up on the NHL. It was the same story then, either waiting to see if the team does anything in the playoffs (uh, maybe like making it to the second round?) or the arena wasn't convenient, or the tickets were too expensive. Or whatever their other excuses are. It was and still is hard to be a Sens fan with fickle "supporters" like they have.
After this press I'm sure they'll sell out the remaining home games of the playoffs.
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