from Luke DeCock of the News & Observer,

There were enough season-ticket no-shows – again, not uncommon for a frigid Tuesday night against Ottawa, even in the salad days – to give the lower bowl a gap-toothed look, but all but a few hundred die-hard upper-levelers took up the team on its open offer to move down, including the notorious noisemakers from Section 328 who took up residence in Section 123. Things did get louder than they would have been in the third, even if no amount of fan migration could have salvaged the first two sleepy periods. What's the point of trying to fill up the lower bowl if there's nothing to get loud about?

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