A journalist is furious with the Canadiens and some NHL teams

For the past several years, ticket prices, coupled with the team's more disappointing performance, have meant that home games are not as often played to capacity.

Montreal Gazette writer Stu Cowan finds something deplorable about this. In his view, pre-season games should be much cheaper, when they are not. We're seeing less experienced players on both sides and the show is less entertaining.

Here are Cowan's words:

The reporter also tells an anecdote in the comments, where a father paid full price with his two children to see their idol, Sidney Crosby, at a prep game at the Bell Centre. Crosby was not in uniform (obviously) and they paid a lot of money for nothing in the end.