If you want to see the NHL’s fifth final in Vegas, you can shell out quite a bit of money for tickets.
NHL’s Fifth final game Vegas Golden Knights – Florida Panthers live on TV2 and Areena on Wednesday, June 14 at 3:00. The championship is on hold for Vegas.
LAS VEGAS. Ticket sales around the Stanley Cup Finals are hot. Especially now it’s getting hot, when the Vegas Golden Knights have the opportunity to decide the championship on their home ice early Wednesday morning Finnish time.
Already on Monday, it was clear that there wouldn’t be a single cheap seat in Vegas’ home arena for those who still want to buy a ticket from the resale market. For example, on the website of the well-known Stubhub, on Monday afternoon, the cheapest ticket was sold at the price of 655 and 776 dollars. However, the cheaper ticket says “no view” and the 766 ticket also says “restricted view”.
If you want to be sure to see the game from your own chair, the price jumps to 1148 dollars on Stubhub, or about 1060 euros. This is the upper stand ticket. After that, we go to 1300 dollars for a few tickets and after that quickly already to one and a half tons. These are all upper grandstand tickets.
If you want to buy a chair from the lower gallery, the prices rise to a whole new level. For example, on Stubhub’s website, the cheapest ticket in the lower stands costs just under $3,200.
According to ticketing website TickPick, the average ticket price for the fifth final on Monday was $2,433.
The reading is staggering, if you compare it with the readings of recent years. The American sports channel ESPN compared ticket prices a year ago, when Colorado had the chance to break the streak on their home ice in the fifth final. At the time, according to the Vivid Seats website, the average price was 1375 bucks.
If you compare the price of TickPick this year and Vivid Seats last year, the difference is more than a thousand dollars.
When Tampa was able to clinch the Finals series against Montreal at home in 2021, the average price for the clinch game was 1022 bucks. Two years earlier in St. Louis the reading was 1316 and in the summer of 2015 in Chicago it was 1232 dollars. In Los Angeles, the average price of a 2014 ticket on the resale market was already less than a ton.
These numbers are the result of ESPN’s research from a year ago.
All the same in Vegas the prices are really high. If the average ticket price is well over two tons, it may well be even among all-time record readings. It is by no means far from them.