Not the ones in Ottawa but the ones in suburban Ottawa, Kanata to be precise.
The paper of record here in your Capital, the Ottawa Citizen, ran a front page piece on the Sens and how they are sh*tting the bed when it comes to attendance and gate revenue this season and number three in the thirty team league in giving away tickets.
Ticket revenues, and this is a league that is the most dependent of the major sports on ticket sales, are down over 22 per cent, also third in the league.
CEO Cyril Leeder spun this way and then that way in the Ottawa Citizen story but the bottom line is the bottom line and the bottom line doesn't look too good.
Giving away tickets is, in my view, one of the biggest contributing factors to the demise of both the CFL Renegades and the National Lacrosse League teams this town has had. Once you charge nothing for the product it is hard to charge something.
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