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Smith-Valade said demand was so high for tickets to the gold-medal game, even before the tournament began, that organizers could have sold out Canada Hockey Place 18 times over.
"We were happily surprised by the interest and are not surprised by the interest now in the last-minute tickets," she told reporters Saturday.
Did she just say what I think she said? That they were surprised that Canadians wanted to watch the gold medal hockey game?
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