NHL Final 4: Golden Knights Secondary Market Tickets For VGK vs MTL Game 1 In Vegas Today Are Red-Hot — Like Las Vegas Weather This Week

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Alan Snel JP Peterson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

The average Golden Knights’ ticket price for the NHL semifinal matchup with the Montreal Canadiens is $822 on the secondary market, according to TicketIQ, which tracks secondary market ticket prices.

Check out the VGK secondary market ticket prices through the years of the four-year-old NHL franchise from TicketIQ .

And here’s another chart to give these ticket prices some context compared to other markets and teams, especially the New York Rangers.

As of 10 AM today, there were tickets available on the VGK Ticket Exchange website, the team’s official ticket seat. Tickets began at $184,

Great to chat with my former news convergence colleague JP Peterson of FanStreamSports.com in Tampa about the Islanders vs Tampa, game 1 Sunday. JP mentioned the crowd of 14,000 plus at Amalie Arena on a Sunday afternoon in Tampa didn’t have the emotional juice you typically see in an NHL semifinal game.

Here’s our chat from today:

JP hopes the T-Mobile Arena ice surface holds up under today’s 112-degree temperature and 18,000 plus fans in the building off the Strip.

It’s going to be red-hot in Las Vegas this week:

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