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If I’m not mistaken, tickets to the Ottawa/Vancouver game on December 7th, 2014 might have been an early Christmas present from me to m’lady, though I could easily be wrong about that. It makes sense though; before moving to Ottawa from her home in the Vancouver area the Canucks were her favourite team (of course), and on top of that these were no ordinary tickets.
No, ordinary tickets for me would have been seats in the 300 level, and in the $30-50 range. As you can see, this is not that sort of a ticket. Rather, this ticket was for a seat only three rows up from the glass (the ticket indicates the fourth row but I’m sure we were in the third row) and is priced well over double my usual sport-ticket budget. So yeah, there’s a pretty good chance I bought these at least under the pretext of being a gift.*
And you know what? Hockey games aren’t nearly as much fun when you’re up so close. We were on a corner and every time the puck went to the other end of the rink our side view through the glass made seeing the action impossible. We ended up watching half of the action on the big screen that hung directly over our heads.
And throughout the entire game there was only one check into the glass in front of us, and though it sounded like a human car accident that single hit was hardly worth the price of admission on its own.
Though the Sens did win in overtime, four to three, so there was that at least.
Don’t get me wrong: I had a good time, as I always do at a Sens game. Plus I no longer have to envy the people I see sitting down by the glass; if there is one benefit from purchasing these pricey tickets it was learning that I’m happiest when I’m sitting way up in the cheap seats.
*Plus it was probably bobblehead night, which would explain the hand-scrawled “X” on the ticket. I’m a sucker for free stuff, even if that free thing is a useless “toy” that costs me upwards of $125 per ticket to get my hands on. Does it help that I know that I’m an idiot?
Todd Man Out 