Love watching this tournament over Christmas every year, makes a nice change from watching flames hockey as I have nothing invested in it, totaly neutral, just love the atmosphere and the hockey.
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On hotels.com you can get a couple places for $1800-$2000 a night for two adults. Everything else is $2500-$5000 per night. Just insanity.
Flights are about $2k per person for 4 days. So flights, accommodation and tickets for lets say three games and 3 nights would be about $11500 + tickets (probably $500 if you wanted the gold medal sunday) for two. So a $14k trip, including spending to see 13th forwards and 7th defensemen compete. I know I won't be doing that one any time soon.
I'm looking online now and the prices dramatically lower than you're quoting. All for Dec. 26 to Dec. 29.
3 nights on booking.com is as low as $1381 for Hotel Derby, with $2200 being an average price for what appears to be a good hotel in Hotel Parssen or Hotel National.
Tickets on stubhub are $49 for standing section. $144 gets seats. This is for Canada's games.
I can book a flight right now to Geneva for $1567 but a more direct flight is around the $2k mark.
So I calculate it out to $864 for 2x seated tickets to 3 games, $2200 for hotel, and $4000 for flights for 2 people. So $7064 total. Could also be done cheaper.
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Canada pummels Frolunda Gotheberg 4-0. Jonathan Hazen with a pair, Corban Knight and Ty Smith with singles. Aaron Dell with the shut-out.
Dynamo Pardubice with a thrilling 3-2 overtime victory over Ambri-Piotta. Alex Fomention with a pair of goals in a losing cause, while the plucky Czechs got markers from Matej Paulovic and Thomas Zohorna in regulation time. The Overtime hero was none other than captain Lukas Sedlak!
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Got to be so annoying. Imagine if you’re sitting up front and there’s 300 people behind you. You’re spending the whole game passing drinks and money around because the in seat service won’t go up there themselves.
Got to be so annoying. Imagine if you’re sitting up front and there’s 300 people behind you. You’re spending the whole game passing drinks and money around because the in seat service won’t go up there themselves.
I dont know. It seems to me like it takes 2 seconds out of your day. Not a terrible inconvenience.
You Californians just think about yourselves too much.
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I dont know. It seems to me like it takes 2 seconds out of your day. Not a terrible inconvenience.
You Californians just think about yourselves too much.
Once or twice, sure. When someone in the center wants a drink or a hot dog then of course you pass over the money and hand over the drinks/food if you’re on the aisle.
But the vendor has to actually, you know, walk up there to see if anyone wants something. What a pain it would be to do that for an entire section all game.
I’m paying to watch a game, not send money and drinks around.
I'm looking online now and the prices dramatically lower than you're quoting. All for Dec. 26 to Dec. 29.
3 nights on booking.com is as low as $1381 for Hotel Derby, with $2200 being an average price for what appears to be a good hotel in Hotel Parssen or Hotel National.
Tickets on stubhub are $49 for standing section. $144 gets seats. This is for Canada's games.
I can book a flight right now to Geneva for $1567 but a more direct flight is around the $2k mark.
So I calculate it out to $864 for 2x seated tickets to 3 games, $2200 for hotel, and $4000 for flights for 2 people. So $7064 total. Could also be done cheaper.
And why just go for the tournament? Visit other towns and maybe Austria when you’re there. Christmas markets etc. Would be a very cool winter vacation, with a hockey game or two thrown in.
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Spengler cup is great hockey. Much better than the world jr’s with 1% of the hype.
And guys that give up their Christmas and holidays to play for the country.
The World Juniors and the TSN generated hype is, for at least Canadian players but probably most teams, a stressful time, where the focus (both for your agent to get you on the team and for to play well during the week) is a showcase to bascially try to improve your NHL draft ranking.
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Dynamo Pardubice defeated KalPa Kuopio 2-1. Tomas Zohorna the hero with a late goal to break the time.
Pardubice finishes atop their group.
HC Davos defeat Team Canada 4-3. Goals for Josh Jooris, John Quenneville and Michael Joly. Calle Andersson, Andres Ambühl, Michael Fora and Henrik Haapala for the home side.
Team Canada plays KalPa Kuopio next in the quarterfinals.
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Dynamo Pardubice defeated KalPa Kuopio 2-1. Tomas Zohorna the hero with a late goal to break the time.
Pardubice finishes atop their group.
HC Davos defeat Team Canada 4-3. Goals for Josh Jooris, John Quenneville and Michael Joly. Calle Andersson, Andres Ambühl, Michael Fora and Henrik Haapala for the home side.
Team Canada plays KalPa Kuopio next in the quarterfinals.
Pissed the game away, with a 3-1 lead. Forces them to play this extra game as opposed to a bye if they won.
