Davis: Edmonton Oilers fans should go to Las Vegas for much cheaper NHL playoff tickets
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ONE: With three Canadian franchises advancing to the second round of the NHL playoffs for the first time since 2004, it's becoming darned expensive for fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers and Winnipeg Jet s to watch their teams play live.
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Especially for Oilers fans, who should really go to Las Vegas!
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It's way cheaper to attend an Oilers/Knights game in Sin City. The cheapest single ticket being resold on StubHub for the first game in Las Vegas was $89 Cdn, compared to opening-night prices of $344 in Edmonton, $294 in Toronto and $241 in Winnipeg.
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Resale prices get much higher for future games, better seats and group tickets. And it's tough planning ahead because there were times during the first playoff round when it looked like the Oilers, Maple Leafs and especially the Jets, who won the Presidents Trophy for being the NHL's best regular-season team, weren't going to advance.
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Edmonton was down 2-0 in its best-of-seven against the Los Angeles Kings before shifting the momentum to win four straight.
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Toronto won three games before losing two straight — and reviving all the Leafs horror stories from past playoffs — against the Ottawa Senators.
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Winnipeg, in Game 7 against the St. Louis Blues, needed a tying goal with 1.6 seconds remaining to force overtime and ultimately score the game-winner in one of the most exhilarating games imaginable.
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Even at scalper's prices it's been tough to complain about the entertainment value. And if Toronto, Edmonton or Winnipeg becomes the first Canadian franchise to win the Stanley Cup since the 1993 Montreal Canadiens, the tickets for those games will be outrageous. Especially in Canadian dollars.
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From 1997-2012 he was paid to be there as an assistant coach, first in charge of running backs before coaching linebackers and becoming the special teams co-ordinator while also handing the CFL draft, eventually becoming the longest-tenured coach in franchise history and ultimately earning induction into the team's Plaza of Honour.
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Smith, a Regina product, was a successful high school coach before spending five seasons on-staff with the junior Regina Rams. He was a guest coach at Riders training camp for two years before being hired by Jim Daley, the first of seven head coaches Smith worked with before Corey Chamblin inexplicably dumped him. Smith was on Kent Austin's staff when Saskatchewan won the 2007 Grey Cup. He resumed coaching high school and junior teams before finally retiring last year.
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