Notes from the Senators/Flames game.

Bullet form, because I'm tired and if I wait for the morning I'll forget.

• Alfredsson breaking the glass and delaying the game? Excellent.
• $7.50 for a plastic cup of Canadian? I clearly don't go to many sporting events. Wow.
• Right after the anthem, Brian Lee and Andy Sutton did some sort of "secret handshake" type thing, a-la baseball. I found that to be a little strange, given one's status as a new player and one's status as a barely-there player.
• That wasn't a high stick.
• Erik Karlsson is fantastic. He looked as smooth and fast as I expected, but I noticed a certain level of scrappyness (rubbing people out, pushing back, chirping) that I didn't expect
• On the topic of grit, Michalek skating across the ice to get involved in a scrum made me happy. I wondered if Heatley would have skated as fast in the opposite direction.
• Regin and Kovalev are both zeros. I may never forgive Regin.
• Despite the enormous ice time disparities, I noticed Winch/Donovan/Ruutu many times more than Spezza/Alfie/Michalek
• After the game, the Flames all gave their jerseys away to fans in attendance. I laughed out loud at the guy who got Vesa Toskala's game worn sweater.
• The most surprising part of the night was seeing the number of Senators fans in attendance. I had gone, running on the assumption that I was going to be one of the very few there, like maybe a dozen at most. There were at least a couple hundred. Every "Go Flames Go" was drowned out by a "Go Sens Go", the disallowed goal was booed very loudly, and the post game consisted of plenty of "At least we're not in 8th place" heckles. I got several positive comments on my Alfredsson jersey, and was even there to back up another Senators fan in a Stanley Cup argument (Q: Have the Senators won the Cup? Yes.) The Sens fan base is apparently greater than I had imagined.

I may have more to add tomorrow, I'll leave them in the comments.