The WJC not selling out in Canada. This actually surprises me a bit because hockey is a religion in Canada. I think this is a legit question why was Winnipeg, Manitoba passed over?
SASKATOON -- It's been one of the most asked questions of the 2010 world junior championship: What's the deal with all the empty seats?
There have been thousands of them -- swaths in the upper deck for the preliminary round. And that's for games involving Team Canada, no less.
In fact, the only sold-out game to date at Credit Union Centre was for the much anticipated Canada-USA tilt on New Year's Eve. And tickets for that game were available practically until game time.
As of Monday morning, there were still tickets left for tonight's gold-medal final -- a Canada-USA rematch -- at least, for anyone willing to shell out $388 dollars for a pair.
So you can forgive a red-blooded Manitoba hockey fan for wondering why the Winnipeg-Brandon bid for the 2010 junior worlds was passed over in favour of our Saskatchewan neighbours. The Regina pool featured perennial junior powers such as Sweden, Russia, Finland and the Czech Republic, yet those matches didn't come close to selling out the 6,000-plus seats in Brandt Arena, either.
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