The Senators will raise ticket prices 14% at the Corel
Centre next season, reports Bruce Garrioch of the OTTAWA
SUN. Club section seats will face the "biggest price hike,
up $10 per seat to $95 per game ($80 per game in the season-
ticket package)." There will also be up to a $6 increase on
other seating, while tickets in the Upper Bowl will be
raised $1-$3 for season-ticket holders (OTTAWA SUN, 3/15).
FRENCH CONNECTION: In Ottawa, Rob Brodie wrote that the
Senators' four-year TV deal with RDS "is huge," in terms of
making more inroads into the francophone market. The team
will now appear on seven of the nets telecasts this season
and 13 next season. Brodie: "Even more impressive is the
reach of these games. Up until this year, the Sens'
territory extended in a 50-mile radius from Ottawa. But the
NHL has redrawn the boundaries to accommodate regional
television, and the Sens now share a territory with the
[Canadiens] that stretches ... to Newfoundland." Senators
President Roy Mlakar: "(The Sens' market) is now 4.7 million
potential homes. That's almost equal to the territory that
Toronto and Montreal now have" (OTTAWA SUN, 3/14).
