Oh look, more evidence that sports owners aren’t interested in building sustained relationships with fans, that they’re only interested in emptying your wallet and then moving on to the next fan. If you’re going to be in Penticton two weeks from now to watch Vancouver Canucks training camp and you want to watch the camp’s main “blue vs. white” scrimmage, it will cost you $40.

Yes, you read that right. Forty bucks for what isn’t even a real game.

A decade ago to watch a Young Stars game, which featured the odd hotshot rookie but otherwise a basket of hard-skating never-weres, you could get in for $10. A quick check with the Bank of Canada’s inflation calculator tells us that ticket should cost you $12.70 today.

Of course, a stop at the grocery store tells you that while inflation may not

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