Inventory of Secondary Market Tickets For Stanley Cup Finals Games Increase, Driving Reseller Tix Prices Down

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

An increasing number of Stanley Cup Final tickets is driving SCF game ticket prices down, ticketiQ reported to LVSportsBiz.com Wednesday.

Jesse Lawrence of ticketiQ said the ticket inventory has increased 64 percent to 3,679, which has driven prices down 21 percent.

But it’s not like ticket prices for the Colorado Avalanche vs Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup Final have plummeted. The average reseller ticket is $2,220, Lawrence said.

Here are some ticketiQ observations:

To offer some perspective, here is a chart showing how this year’s secondary market ticket prices stack up against those of past years. You’ll notice the Vegas Golden Knights miracle Stanley Cup finalist season of 2018 comes in second.

Here’s a graphic showing the ticket availability and price trends via ticketiQ.

 

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Around noontime, LVSportsBiz.com took a peak at some other secondary market ticket resellers.

Tickets for tonight’s Tampa Bay Lightning vs Colorado Avalanche Game 1 were starting at about $500 around mid-day Wednesday.

Ticket reseller SeatGeek had a ticket listed at $474, while StubHub listed a ticket starting at $520 on the secondary market.

 

 

 


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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.