It’s that time of year again, and the time of year when I have extra tickets for games I can’t make it to.

First up: Wednesday September 26th vs. San Jose - 7:00pm.

Price: $120 for the pair. That’s my cost. (Regular price is around $180)

Here’s how it works - comment or email me (jen at thisdomain dot com) and I’ll let you know if you’re the first to respond. I’ll give you instructions for either a paypal or hyperwallet transfer (your choice). After I’ve received the funds, I’ll email you the tickets.

I know there’s been some scandal around “e-tickets” - and I suppose if you’re worried about me scamming you, this isn’t the venue for you to get to the game. Canucks season ticket holders (which I am) have the option to email tickets to a friend if they can’t get to the game. I promise I’m not scamming you, just busy.

Alternately, if you can manage to get downtown today or tomorrow and meet me outside my office during a very specific window of time, I will consider exchanging the tickets for cash. But I’m in a lot of meetings for the next couple days and leaving at 5:00 each day for some other commitments - so it’ll be tight.

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I swear I’m doing more with my life these days than watching hockey and selling tickets.

As soon as I figure out what that is, I’ll let you know.

In the meantime, I’ve gotten a LOT of interested parties contacting me regarding Round 2 playoff tickets. Yes I have them, and yes, Game 6 is for sale.

It’s a huge pain in the hind-end to keep track of offers, so I’ve listed the tickets on ebay.

You can bid on them here.

I’m crossing my fingers that they make it to the fourth (and final) round, when I’ll actually use the tickets to attend the game myself!

UPDATE: sold again!

Effing hockey team.

I was seriously hoping that the Canucks would have won game 5 or 6, so I wouldn’t be in the position of having to sell the tickets for game seven.

So much for that idea.

So I have one pair of tickets available for the Western Quarterfinals - Tomorrow (Monday) at 6:00pm. You pay what I paid: $75/ticket ($150 for the pair) and arrange to pick them up from me (in Kits) sometime before then.

Email jen at thisdomain dot com or leave a comment if you’re interested.

UPDATE: Sold! I love it when a plan comes together.

It seems my career as a high rollin’ ticket broker is just not meant to be.

With the flood of tickets to tonight’s game on the market, I’ve had absolutely zero success selling my pair thus far.

As much fun as it would be to be at GM place tonight, I’ve not become magically employed in the last 72 hours, and the general playoff markup is still too rich for my blood.

So I’m offering the pair of tickets for sale, for $148.00 - exactly what I paid for them as a season’s ticket holder.

Considering Ticketbastard charges $117 per ticket plus fees, you’re getting a pretty damn good deal.

Leave a comment, or email (jen at thisdomain dot com), and I’ll even meet you at GM Place pregame, since I’ll be downtown anyway.

Puck drops at 6:00pm - hopefully with your butt in those seats instead of mine!

It’s that time of year - the Canucks have made it to the playoffs once again, and probably won’t go past the first round (once again).

Personally, the lure of the cash draws me more than the lure of seeing playoff hockey - so if you’re interested in contributing to the “Jen’s unemployed and has no money - thank goodness people are willing to pay premiums for hockey tickets” fund, check out my ad on craigslist. I think I’m being pretty fair - staying competitive with the low-end of everyone else who seems to have tickets for sale.

Get ‘em while they’re hot folks. It’s probably your last chance to see the boys in blue on ice, rather than the putting green, for the foreseeable future.

I’ve got a pair of hockey tickets for sale, again.

Vancouver Canucks vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
Tuesday, January 30 - 7:30pm
Section 321, row 13.

$120 for the pair (regular $160 through ticketmaster).

You can either paypal me and have them left at will call, or pick them up from me - cash only - near my work (Oak & Broadway) during business hours or near my home (4th and Macdonald) some evening.

Comment or email if you want ‘em!

UPDATE: sold!

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

I have some hockey tickets for sale. All tickets will be sold as pairs for $100, which was my cost for them as a season’s ticket holder.

They’re in section 321 (Canucks attacking zone, between the blue line and the goal line, players’ bench side), row 13. Regular cost is $64.25 EACH plus ticketbastard fees (brings the price per ticket over $70).

Please leave a comment, or email if you’re interested in any of the following games:

Thursday November 30 vs. Anaheim Ducks SOLD!
Saturday December 2 vs. Colorado Avalanche (premium game - that means TM charges EVEN MORE) SOLD!
Friday December 8 vs. Carolina Hurricanes SOLD!
Saturday December 16 vs. Minnessota Wild SOLD!

All gone folks. Thanks for playing!

I’ve got one pair of Canucks pre-season tickets to sell to the first interested party who connects with me with a fistfull of cash.

Tickets are for the game vs. San Jose on Tuesday, Sept. 26th in Section 321, Row 13. Regularly sell for $64.25 each plus ticketbastard fees. They’re yours for $50 each.

How is this possible you ask? I have a set of half-season tickets. Nobody I normally share the tickets with is either available for or interested in this particular game, so I’m offering them up to anyone who’ll take them off my hands. I’m not looking to make a profit off the tickets - I paid $49.29 each for them, so $50 even just seems like an easier way to deal with it - though if you’d like to pay me $98.58 in exact change, that’s cool too.

Comment or email if you’d like to get in on some pre-season action for a great price! Puck drops at 7:00pm.

Update: Sold!

Best quote for a Monday:

I’m trying to be excited that there’s a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Everyone seems to think that’s reason enough to cheer for the damned Oilers. But to me, it’s like cheering for SARS just because lots of people got it in Toronto. -meg @ blogcabin

As for the title of the post.. Grease.. Oil.. get it? funny? ha ha? Ha.. oh nevermind.

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In their last Vancouver matchup for the next three years (fuck you very much, New NHL), I watched the Vancouver Canucks completely embarrass the Montreal Canadiens.

It was definitely great to see my boys in blue take down the Habs, and yet, at the same time my heart was breaking.

You see, I am of the opinion that Jose Theodore is hands down the hottest thing on hockey skates. My seats were directly behind the Canucks net, 9th row, right above where the Zambonis come out.

I was waiting in giddy, girlish anticipation for the 2nd period, where I’d have an unobstructed view of #60 dousing his strong jaw, big brown eyes, shaggy rockstar hair with a strong spray of water from his water bottle, slowly shaking it off…..

But I digress.

After letting in 5 goals in the first 15 minutes of play, Theodore was yanked from the game. Backup goalie Huet was in his place. And my dreams died.

So, Canucks? While I’d love to see you dominate every other team in the NHL like this, next time Theodore makes his way to town, can I please just have a moment with him, before you embarrass him into oblivion? Thanks.

Canucks fans, I am sorry.

I’m cursed.

You see, every game I watch, the Canucks manage to pull it off and win - occasionally in spectacular fashion and against some very strong odds! And the games I don’t watch - they manage to even blow what should be sure things.

It’s gotten completely out of control! I’ve turned on games in progress, and the Canucks are losing. When I watch for a while, the Canucks manage to pull ahead. If I turn the game off again, and check the score later, they end up losing!

This is seriously starting to freak me out, and frankly I CAN’T HANDLE THE PRESSURE!

Any ideas how to break the curse?

Actually, strike that, anyone want to start paying me to watch (or not watch) games, depending on who you’re cheering for?

That’s it. I’m totally putting myself on ebay.

What’s Good? Slipping on my much neglected Canucks Jersey, because HOCKEY’S BACK KIDS!

What’s Better? Wandering through the streets of Vancouver with it on, sharing the home-team cameraderie with my fellow fans. Knowing glances, smiles, and even the occasional high-five from complete strangers - it does a body good!

What’s Best? Talking to the strangers, being asked “So where are you going to watch the game?” and answring “GM Place,” then watching them slowly turn a lovely shade of green.

The game itself was fabulous - exciting hockey - and it didn’t hurt that the Canucks absolutely dominated the Coyotes for most of the game. It was fairly amusing that once the crowd got sick of giving Cujo the raspberry, they took to chanting “Greeeettttttttt-skyyyyyyyyyyyy.”

It’ll be interesting seeing how Phoenix progresses this season under the tutilege of “The Great One.” While Wayne has shown some success leading the Canadian National Team to victory, those are really the best of the best players our country has to offer. It’s a known fact in coaching that prodigies are usually the worst coaches, since they have a tough time relating to those who don’t have an innate ability. It’s hard to teach someone else how to do something that comes to you naturally. And NHL teams certainly have their fair share of those to whom finesse hockey does not come naturally.

Incidentally, I’ll be back at The Garage in a couple weeks’ time to watch the Canucks/Coyotes next matchup. I wonder what they’ll have learned in that time and if anything will change…

IT’S ABOUT GODDAMN TIME!

The Canucks announced today that they’ve re-signed Matt Cooke for a multi-year contract.

Further details here.

T-minus 3 days until I see some pre-season action.

Two weeks until the home opener.

Where will you be?

It’s good to be excited (rather than annoyed) by hockey again.

In addition to attending some of the games, I wanted to put feelers out there for who may be interested in making my place a Pay Per View game destination.

My TV is a modest 27″ but I do have digital cable, a pretty accessible apartment (being at the vortex of most major transportation routes through the Lower Mainland), and a goodly amount of space to put people on the couch, chairs, and floor. And it’s a heckuva lot cheaper than spending 3 hours at your local watering hole, with a much cleaner bathroom.

I figure it’ll work something like this: I order the game, you provide your own drinkables, and something snacky to share. We eat, drink, and make merry cheering on the ‘Nucks. Of course you’re free to cheer for the opponents, but the rest of the group may throw food at you from time to time.

The season’s PPV schedule is here. Game schedule offering is at my discretion (I’d like to watch all of them, but I do have something of a life), and I reserve the right to cancel showings due to lack of interest. Of course if I’m at the game, you’re SOL unless you make friends with my roommate and want to watch with him.

If nobody is interested, I’ll just sulk in the corner because I have no friends who wanna hang out with me, and then I’ll pick myself up off the floor and move on. But if you are interested, please leave a comment stating as much. I’ll send out the evites about a week before each game I’m available to show and move on from there. And if this becomes the social event of the season, eventually some cash to contribute to the cable bill, or some beer to drink while I open the cable bill, would be appreciated.

First PPV game is pre-season vs. Edmonton on October 1st at 7:00pm.

Schwing!

I just confirmed my Canucks Half-Season ticket package (C21B). Of course, I was hoping for better seats, but that’s what happens when you decide to get on the list in late July. I’m just glad I got tickets for this season.

If you see a rowdy girl with short blonde hair (may or may not be hidden by a foam puck as the drinks flow more freely) in Section 304, row 15 - that’ll probably be me.

It looks like I’ll have about 4-5 games available that I’ll need someone to accompany me to, so keep your eyes on this spot for last minute pleas for a hockey buddy. The ticket will be about $30, or the cost of keeping me in beer and hotdogs for the duration of the game.