Los Angeles Kings vs. Ottawa Senators

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Some teams you only get once. The way the league rotates its schedule, an Eastern Conference club turns up in this building about as often as a decent rainstorm, and Ottawa is the far end of that - a franchise most people here have formed no opinion about whatsoever, which is its own peculiar kind of appeal. You come to watch hockey rather than to re-litigate a grudge. The building does something quietly remarkable for these nights, too: the floor the basketball team played on has gone, and underneath it the whole time was a sheet of ice. Thursday is the cheapest night of the week to sit somewhere good. If you have been meaning to work out whether you actually like this sport, a no-stakes Thursday against a team you have never once thought about is a far better test than a rivalry night, because nothing in the room is shouting at you about what you are supposed to feel.