Thursday, May 23 was a tough day to be a Vancouver Canucks fan.

It was the day tickets officially went on sale to the public for the first day of the NHL Entry Draft, held in Vancouver. And unless you were a season ticket holder or managed to get extremely lucky on Ticketmaster, you were probably out of luck.

The team had around 70 tickets available when it opened up sales at 10 a.m. on Thursday and they were gone within a matter of minutes. They’re now being sold on the secondary market for four times the original price of $27.

Though it was announced that more tickets will go on sale closer to the June 21 date, there’s no doubt the NHL and the Canucks could have handled the situation better. Standing room only tickets, for instance, could have been an option, or it could have been made clear to those who got priority that ads for tickets on the resale market would be monitored aggressively and taken down immediately.

Alas, those measures weren’t taken. But at that point, it was stomachable. Sure, it sucks to see tickets snapped up and feel like the team doesn’t value you as a fan. But it is a business, after all, and a hugely popular one at that.

But two days later (!) came this tweet from Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini.

In a word: yikes.

The tweet summarizes much of what Aquilini’s critics have always contended. He characterizes himself and his family as hard-working Vancouverites who are die-hard fans of the city’s hockey team, but it’s hard to reckon that with moments like this, where it's obvious he's on another planet from actual hard-working Vancouverites. 

The tweet was deleted shortly after it was published.

Of course, Aquilini’s week was about to get a whole lot worse.

Being comically out-of-touch is one thing. Treating migrant workers like they are ninth-class citizens is a whole different ball game. Aquilini and his team denied the claims from the workers, of course (though they did first say there would be an investigation, wonder how that’s going to go). But one has to think the damage is done here, at least publicly. These allegations will stick to him. 

To top it all off, he just had to tweet about ride-sharing (though what he meant was ride-hailing) on the day the workers were making their statement.

https://twitter.com/fr_aquilini/status/1133404240565555200

Everyone wants ride-hailing services in Vancouver, that’s obvious. But one of the city’s most notable residents is making it his main crusade, and considering it more important than things like his employees and the other citizens of his hometown.

That’s not a great look, especially less than a month before hosting one of the league’s biggest events.

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