On a night when the city of Ottawa could perhaps best be described as Hoth-like, you wouldn't have blamed the fans if instead of coming to the game they sheltered themselves in the innards of a tauntaun. Frankly, that might have been more pleasant.
OK, that was a bad nerd joke. It's just that this game really wasn't terribly exciting. Really, it was mostly kinda boring. In spite of the Senators' supposed dedication to fast starts, the Sabres carried the play for the majority of the first period and struck first when Jack Eichel basically a created a goal by himself: