Well, our tickets were at "will-call", just not the regular ticket window will-call. The ticket offices were all closed today, as a holiday, I guess. Once we got inside there were several other people who got their tickets from one of the Storm Squad girls.
That snag aside, the event was extremely well run. We were also in the red group. Autographs from many of the players, photos with lots of them. I asked Staal to sign something for me, I thanked him and then he thanked me for coming! These have to be the most approachable professional athletes around. My wife spoke with A. Ward for a little while and he talked about how glad he is to be back; he loves it here.
As Faceoff said, no coaches. Maybe they heard what happened last year: the day after he sat for photos with fans Lavi was out the door .