PHOTO: Attendance is sparse for rescheduled game between Sabres, Senators
On Thursday night, the Ottawa Senators visited the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY. to face the Buffalo Sabres.
The game was actually due to be played over a month ago, but was rescheduled when a massive winter storm, an act of god, really, dumped a maximum snowfall accretion of 88 inches on Buffalo.
Perhaps the Sabres forgot to tell the fans that the game was rescheduled because, well, not very many people showed up:
Live from the land of compete and grit pic.twitter.com/kUvrCOoFBS
— Zemgus Jagiello (@Husaria) December 15, 2014
#OneBuffalo RT @rjflesher: @EmptySeatsPics The crowd at tonight's #Sabres game pic.twitter.com/6HK9pxHP8E
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) December 16, 2014
It's never good to see an NHL game being played in a nearly empty arena, but at least this isn't a persistent problem for the Sabres.
Though the club is rebuilding and unrelentingly terrible, they're still playing to a crowd that's averaged over 18,000 per home date, according to ESPN's NHL attendance report.