Here are the tickets for the very first game of the year, a pre-season tilt with the defending champion Boston Bruins on Wednesday. I guess this is making a statement for the rebuild/future of youth. Similar to past tickets however but still I like em.
The first captain for the modern day Senators gets the honor to adorn the opening night tickets for the 20th anniversary season vs Dany Heatley and the Minnesota Wild. It seems like a nice sentimental choice and brings back good memories for me when I was with my dad at the Civic Centre on October 8th, 1992.
Ah yes, the night many in Ottawa and surrounding areas have been waiting for. February 9th will be a hot ticket, as local legend and Mr he can't ever do anything wrong returns for the first time. Ol' blue eyes will take the ice at SBP for the first time in a jersey other than one with a Sens logo on the front. Look for Mike to get a standing O and cheered all night, a far cry from the treatment most ex Sens receive upon their return.
Robin Lehner is on the Binghamton/Hamilton game tickets, which has the nice touch of adding the Calder Cup trophy and saying the BSens were 2010-11 AHL Champs as well. It would also seem that they expect Mr Lehner to be in Bingo all year barring some crazy injury. Sorry Robin, we'll have to wait until next year to see the REAL you.
As far as some of the other tickets included, there are 4 or 5 that feature original Senators from the early 1900's which I thought was pretty cool, as well past players like Norm MacIver and Shawn McEachern, and current one's like Alfie and Spezza. I was kind of surprised they didn't include Alexandre Daigle, who was a big part of our franchise and is a huge part of our history however.
All in all, it was fairly well done, though the template of the tickets is quite similar to in years past. Then again, the real value of the ticket is entrance into SBP to watch, not how they look aesthetically right?
Thoughts?