Canada's Sidney Crosby is tied for the Olympic scoring lead. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Vancouver Olympic organizers say they are trying to find space for about 100 hockey fans who mistakenly thought they had tickets to see Team Canada's faceoff against Russia in Vancouver on Wednesday afternoon.

A printing error led some ticket buyers to believe they were getting tickets to the men's Canada-Russia game, when they were actually buying tickets to the evening game between Finland and the Czech republic at the University of British Columbia's Thunderbird stadium.

The Team Canada game, which is one of the most anticipated events at the 2010 Olympic Games, will take place earlier in the afternoon at Canada Hockey Place, known as GM Place to local residents and home to the Vancouver Canucks.

"There may have been the impression for a very, very small number of account holders — we think it's in the range of about 100 — who believed that the hockey game at UBC was the Canada quarter-final, when in fact the Canada quarter-final is at Canada Hockey Place," said VANOC spokeswoman Renee Smith-Valade.

VANOC's ticketing department identified those accounts and was contacting people directly to let them know about the mistake, Smith-Valade said.