On Monday night, the cars will be streaming to Scotiabank Place as the Ottawa Senators finally begin their season. It's a well known scene, a highway parking lot of sorts, almost comical with grown men in cars with painted faces battling sad public servants on their way home to their bedrooms in Kanata. It will be a scene reminiscent of Field of Dreams, only in the snow and ice. A Bill Kinsella moment. If you drop the puck, they will come. All is forgiven with a little help from free beer, popcorn for a buck and discounted jerseys. How it must irk the soothsayers who predicted that fans would shun the Boys of Winter, turn their backs on them, make them pay for their greed and self-centredness. Yeah, right. The NHL could play its season in the dog days of summer and people would still show up. Fans would still hoist a glass at various taverns and compare statistics. Because Canadians love hockey and nothing -- not even a bunch of millionaires and billionaires haggling ...
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