A power outage delayed the start of Tuesday’s Ottawa Senators game against the St. Louis Blues, as lights flickered at the Canadian Tire Centre.
The 7 p.m. puck drop was pushed back to 7:30 p.m. after the Senators first said they were aiming for a 7:15 p.m. puck drop.
Lights returned to the Canadian Tire Centre shortly after the power went out thanks to the arena’s backup generators, but it took some time to reboot things like the scoreboard.
An automated email from Hydro Ottawa said the outage was affecting 3,411 customers in the area of Goldridge Drive, Fletcher Circle and Hemlo Crescent in Kanata, which is near the hockey arena. The cause of the outage has yet to be determined and Hydro Ottawa gave an estimated restoration time of 1 a.m.
A line of storms could be seen on weather radar moving across the Ottawa region between 6 and 7 p.m. The power outage began at 6:45 p.m., according to Hydro Ottawa.
TSN 1200’s Dean Brown shared a photo of a pitch black Club CIBC on social media.
The TV broadcast on TSN5 was delayed at 7 p.m. It returned to the Canadian Tire Centre at 7:23 when the secondary warmup began.
The TSN 1200 radio broadcast was not interrupted.
It didn’t take long for the Senators to reward fans’ patience, with Josh Norris scoring for Ottawa just over a minute into the delayed game.