You know I'll be there to cheer on Canada to a victory or two. Ticket prices are pretty good for the round robin, but quickly increase for the final rounds.
Link to ticket prices and schedule
http://torino2006.ticketone.it/searc...5AE2F2010AEE27
Looks like the best games are sold out (I'm assuming the "temporarily unavailable" is not just coincidentally applied to all the good games). I've emailed the webmaster to find out.
I'm a little disappointed that there is no Canada USA matchup, so I'm going to settle for Canada Italy. I've got a buddy who is coming here for a couple of weeks to go to the game with me and to get loaded Roma style.
For anyone somewhat interested in going to the olympics, you should know that there is an airline called flyzoom.com that will put you in the UK (direct from Calgary and a few other major cities) for about $400 canadian including taxes. Once you're in europe, ryanair.com or easyjet.com will get you from any major city to any major city for anywhere between $30 and $100 canadian dollars depending on how early you buy your tickets.
I've got plenty more advice about travelling in europe, so if you're a virgin, go ahead and ask.
Oh, most important thing is if you want to save as much money as possible, you'll likely land at one airport and have to fly out of a different one. If you land in London Gatwick and your other flight is out of Stansted, you'd better give yourself a good 6 hours (no kidding) to get your luggage and traverse that city. Otherwise, you'll end up paying 116 british pounds for a ****ing cab just to catch your flight.
BTW, Italy is 8 hours ahead of Calgary, so most of these games will be live in Calgary in the late morning, which sucks for 9 - 5ers. So the solution is to go to Italy and stay in my hostel in Rome (CP discount
) and watch hockey on the big screen at the little irish pub just around the corner.
You know you want to go to at least one game, so budget $2,000 - $2,500 (depending on your spending habits) and spend 2 weeks in Italy.
Ask for money for christmas!
EDIT> Looks like the link doesn't go straight to hockey. choose hockey de ghaccio from the evento list and then click cerca or better yet, google olympic tickets and select the "official" site (same one I used but it will come up in english). Pretty easy from there.