So who were those in the luxury suites at General Motors Place (aka Canada Hockey Place) for Sidney Crosby’s golden goal on Feb. 28 that gave Canada its 14th Winter Olympic championship of the Vancouver 2010 Games?
For the entire run of men’s and women’s hockey at “The Garage” from Feb. 13-28, suites were running $133,650-$252,450 on level 500 to $231,000-$264,000 on level 200. Tickets were included. Food and beverage service was extra. Single-game suites were going for as low as $2,800. The best bargain was $2,800 for a suite at the Czech Republic versus Slovakia match on Feb. 17. If you paid $15,000 for a suite at the Feb. 25 women’s gold medal game, you would have witnessed, at no extra charge, the Canadian players drink beer and smoke cigars on ice.
Prices on the secondary market crashed for the men’s gold medal game. One scalper was offering a suite for $1,600 with less than an hour to go before face-off, according to one of my sources.
The list below, as you’ll see, is not complete. That’s where you come in. Those with solid information that help me fill-in the blanks get a special edition Vancouver 24 hours Vancouver 2010 Olympic pin. Send email to bob.mackin@sunmedia.ca. I also gladly receive mail (from those who would rather remain anonymous) to 554 E. 15th, Vancouver, V5T 2R5.
Luxury suite numbers and groups at the Feb. 28 men’s Olympic gold medal hockey game:
201: TD Bank Financial Group
203: Concord Pacific
204: Aquilini Investment Group
205: Aquilini Investment Group
206: GE (Jet Set)
207: Heli-Jet
208: Coca-Cola
213: Province of British Columbia
214: VANOC
215: VANOC
216: VANOC
217: B.C. Roadbuilders
220: Contemporary International
221: Acer
223: Canaccord
224: Onni
225: Scotiabank
226: Vision Co.
227: Vision Co.
228: Vision Co.
229: Sun Microsystems
230: Aquilini Investment Group
231: Aquilini Investment Group
233: District of West Vancouver
235: Clarus Capital
236: Royal Bank of Canada
238: Rogers
239: Goldcorp
242: Canadian Pacific
243: Ernst and Young
244: Britco Structures
245: Deloitte
246: Weston Bakeries
247: BC Hydro
248: Royal Bank of Canada
249: Canwest
250: Hudson’s Bay Co.
251: Molson
252: Bell
253: CTV
254: Prime Strategies
255: Copperlion Capital
256: Canadian Olympic Committee
257: Edmonton Oilers
259: Jet Set
260: Jet Set
261: Aramark
267: International Ice Hockey Federation: Home team (each game)
268: IIHF Away team (each game)
275: IIHF
276: Province of Alberta
277: McCarthy Tetrault
281: Lisa and Mike Hudson
282: Olympic Panorama Arch Energy
501: Port Metro Vancouver
503: Acklands Grainger
504: Purolator
505: Olympic Panorama (Russia NOC)
506: General Mills
507: Rona/Bombardier
508: Shato Holdings
509: Fasken Martineau
510: Millennium Water Development
513: Olympic Panorama Russia
515: Finland Travel Bureau
520: Four Host First Nations
to be confirmed: 202, 219, 234, 258, 262
blacked out: 209, 210, 211, 212, 241, 263, 278, 279, 502, 511, 512, 514
single: 222, 237, 240, 264, 265, 266, 280
Bob Mackin reports for Vancouver 24 hours.
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G West
1 year ago
hmm
Nice to see Fasken Martineau still has some loose cash - why am I not surprised? Nice to see that the old haunt of such worthies as Geoff Plant and Allan Seckel, not to mention Basi Virk Special prosecutor William Berardino, hasn't fallen upon hard times.
Dan the socialist
1 year ago
I thought Canwest was
I thought Canwest was bankrupt? Yet they had tickets.
BC Boy
1 year ago
Did see the BCFed on the list
Didn't see the BCFed or Jim Sinclair on the list. With the big money the unions have, one wonderes why they didn't take out a suite, complete with beer and pizza for the boys.
shepsil
1 year ago
Hey "BC Boy". Which suite were you in? The Jet Set!
No, it must have been one of the blacked out suites where the BC Liberal's put their Public Affairs Bureau propagandists!
BC Boy
1 year ago
So who is Public Affairs??
"No, it must have been one of the blacked out suites where the BC Liberal's put their Public Affairs Bureau propagandists!"
May be, but wasn't there. Was too busy volunteering for free at The Games and wasn't near Canada Hockey Place.
Nice try though. Amazing talent being able to predict where a person was when they actually weren't. Good material for
a booth at the PNE. Get people to pay to see what predictions can be made and you've
earned enough to buy a burger at Bob's Lunch.
Wouldn't work for PAB anyway. The crap they excrete is just as foul and bad smellin' as the excerement that the NDP dump into the pot.
shepsil
1 year ago
BC Boy just a Media Mercenary!
"Wouldn't work for PAB anyway. The crap they excrete is just as foul and bad smellin' as the excerement that the NDP dump into the pot."
So you don't support the BC Liberal's PAB and you don't support the BCNDP!
I guess that makes you just another internet troll. You have opinions about everything, but nothing pertinent to say. Spending more time opposing commenters here than the original story writers do on their stories.
I pity anybody that makes as many comments as you do for either no pay, nor anyone to support you but yourself!
As the saying goes, "don't feed the trolls"!
BC Boy
1 year ago
Cross the bridge, feed the troll.
"So you don't support the BC Liberal's PAB and you don't support the BCNDP!"
Why would I support either one of them?
Is supporting either one a qualification
for writing an opinion??
"I guess that makes you just another internet troll. You have opinions about everything, but nothing pertinent to say. Spending more time opposing commenters here than the original story writers do on their stories. "
Well that's the nature of the beast in these opinion columns. Same thing happens in the Legislature. The debate goes on for far longer than First Reading of the bill.
"I pity anybody that makes as many comments as you do for either no pay, nor anyone to support you but yourself!"
So who says a person has to be paid?
As the saying goes, "don't feed the trolls"!
If you don't like the look of my bridge,
don't cross it.
Might also apply to a few other dot commentors in this wretched third level
online news rag too, eh?
freebear
1 year ago
A list of Cronies!
Look for Liberals to angle their way onto a directorship with the cronies!