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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
OttawaSouthWeekender Our weekend papers reach over 169,057 homes in the National Capital Region 6th Year, No. 52, December 26, 2008
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WJC coming to town after Christmas The authorized tickets NEVIL HUNT
ORMG STAFF Along with Santa Claus, 200 of the world’s best young hockey players are coming to town. A week from today, players from 10 nations will face off in the IIHF 2009 World Junior Championships. On Jan.5, one team will win the gold medal. If you didn’t fork out as much as $2,300 for a pair of tickets to every game, you still have a shot at being part of the best hockey feast Ottawa has ever seen. Tickets are available from authorized and unauthorized websites, and prices are very reasonable if you’re willing to skip the Team Canada games. Canada will play four games in the round robin at Scotiabank Place – versus the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Germany and the United States. Face value for those tickets is $91 and up, and elimination games cost even more. If you decide to watch Team Canada on TV, that still leaves dozens of games you can see live at Scotiabank Place and the Civic Centre for as little as $11 a ticket. That should put international hockey in plenty of Christmas stockings.
N. JAHN / WEEKENDER STAFF
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Staff and volunteers of the Osgoode Youth Association (O-YA) pose with children participating in the Homework Club after-school program who had their final Christmas bash on Friday afternoon. The kids played games, ate snacks, received presents and had a great time.
trying to find a bargain could be a chilly proposition. BARGAIN SHOPPING Leaving out Canada’s games and their big ticket
price, consider catching the action at the Civic Centre. The WJC is divided into two pools, and you’ll see Russia, Sweden, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia at the arena on
Bank Street. For a real hockey feast you can pick up tickets for back-to-back games. Double-headers that don’t include Canada are played
Dec. 26, 28, 30 and 31 at the Civic Centre, and Dec. 30 at Scotiabank Place.
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ONLINE TICKETS
seller for the WJC is www. capitaltickets.ca. There are still some single-game tickets available there. The best bet to see a game is the online marketplace where package holders can jettison tickets they are unable to use. Considering that many of the 31 games in the full package are played concurrently – one at the Civic Centre and one at Scotiabank Place – there is a good selection of tickets for the single-game fan. The authorized online marketplace can be reached from the www.capitaltickets. ca website by scrolling down near the bottom of the home screen. Look for the link to “2009 IIHF World Junior Championship Ticket Marketplace.” Earlier this week there were more than 1,000 listings with tickets for sale. More good news: sellers can only charge face value for their unwanted tickets. There is a $3.50 service charge to use the system, but that is charged per game, not per ticket. You print the tickets on your own printer. The unauthorized ticketbuying options – where there is a risk of not receiving what you pay for – include EBay and hundreds of ticket brokers you can Google. Tickets from scalpers outside the rinks are hit or miss, depending on lastminute supply and demand, and hanging around outdoors
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