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Grocery-shopping couple given free tickets to Oilers' Stanley Cup game by NHL legends
Don and Mary Semeniuk, at right, receive tickets to an Edmonton Oilers' Stanley Cup game from team greats Kelly Buchberger, left, Charlie Huddy and an unseen Kevin Lowe at the Bonnie Doon Safeway on June 5, 2025.
Two fans of the Edmonton Oilers left a city grocery store on Thursday with something big in their cart that wasn't on their shopping list.
A pair of tickets to Friday's Stanley Cup game between their favourite team and the visiting Florida Panthers.
Don and Mary Semeniuk were surprised by 1980s Oilers players Kevin Lowe, Charlie Huddy and Kelly Buchberger, who gave the tickets for seats at Rogers Place for Game 2 of the National Hockey League championship series to the couple courtesy of Safeway.
Don Semeniuk told CTV News Edmonton he had recently checked prices for tickets to the game and was amazed at the prices.
'I had just gone on Ticketmaster to find out if I could buy one, and in the lower bowl, it was like $2,200 for one ticket, and I thought, 'Whoa!'' he said at the store.
Other fans shopping at the grocery chain's Bonnie Doon store were treated to autographs and merchandise from the trio of Oilers greats who were part of the team's NHL glory days, when they won five Stanley Cups between 1984 and 1990.
