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Like everybody else around the National Hockey League, Eugene Melnyk is mystified.

The Ottawa Senators are only two wins away from a trip to the Stanley Cup final, but as they prepare for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Canadian Tire Centre isn’t completely sold out.

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As the final hours ticked towards the 8 p.m. faceoff between the Senators and Penguins, with Pittsburgh leading the series 3-2, Melnyk’s club was still trying to move a large inventory of seats. A check of the seat map on the Senators’ website indicated a lot of lower-priced seats in the upper decks were still available.

Melnyk chose his words carefully because attendance had been an issue all season, but he said Monday he was taken aback by the fact there was no guarantee the building, which has a capacity of 18,572.

Nobody was certain exactly how many seats remained, but it would be fair to the game wasn’t close to a sellout Monday night.