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It was a potential disaster for one of the biggest bars on Sens Mile.

Bad weather brought down power lines in downtown Ottawa shortly after 7 p.m. — and just before a massive Game 7 between the Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins was about to start.

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Most bars, fortunately, escaped the outage. But one of them, The Lieutenant’s Pump, had 300 fans in it ready to watch the game when the power went out.

“People were coming in since 4 p.m. to grab seats. People were happy. This is Game 7,” assistant manager Carina Salgado said. “We were full staff, pumping food, pumping drinks, and then, boom.”

Bar staff had to kick into high gear as patrons started filing out onto Elgin Street.

“We had to rush, bill everybody, smile, make people understand what was going on,” Salgado said.

But then Ottawa firefighters saved the day.