Posts Tagged ‘Canada Hockey tickets’

“Thrilling” is not a big enough word to describe the Team USA Olympic hockey run or the Gold Medal final against Canada. Sports fans around the world got to see hockey at its finest and they like what they saw. Demand is now surging for NHL tickets as hockey’s elite players return from Vancouver to resume the NHL season.

Following the most highly anticipated matchup of the Winter Games, and perhaps in the history of Canadian sports — USA – Canada in the Gold Medal hockey final — NHL tickets are heating up in the U.S and Canada. The hottest teams saw average ticket prices for remaining home games increase by between eight to 10 percent during the Olympic Games. This of course, is unusual given no NHL games were played during the Winter Olympics. Not coincidentally, the teams with some of the biggest stars of the Olympics are seeing the biggest gains.

Biggest Movers: The hottest NHL tickets since the Olympics began:

1. Nashville Predators (tickets) are up 10.57%
2. Detroit Red Wings (tickets) are up 10.15%
3. San Jose Sharks (tickets) are up 9.56%
4. Pittsburgh Penguins (tickets) are up 9.14%
5. St Louis Blues (tickets) are up 8.00%

These teams sent a huge number of stars to play for Team Canada and Team USA during the games, including: Shea Weber, Sidney Crosby, Marc-André Fleury, Dan Boyle, Dany Heatley, Patrick Marleau, and Joe Thornton, Ryan Suter, Brian Rafalski, David Backes, D Erik Johnson, Brooks Orpik, and Joe Pavelski. Seeing those players so successful on the world stage has certainly added to fan interest in their NHL teams.

The NHL Teams with the hottest tickets

1. Montreal Canadiens tickets start at roughly $70 and average $246
2. Pittsburgh Penguins tickets start at roughly $95 and average $228
3. Toronto Maple Leafs tickets start at roughly $55 and average $223
4. Vancouver Canucks tickets start at roughly $65 and average $208
5. Chicago Blackhawks tickets start at roughly $20 and average $208
6. Washington Capitals tickets start at roughly $40 and average $155
7. New York Rangers tickets start at roughly $50 and average $154
8. Calgary Flames tickets start at roughly $33 and average $151
9. Ottawa Senators tickets start at roughly $35 and average $138
10. Buffalo Sabres tickets start at roughly $50 and average $106

Here’s a look at Olympians by NHL team

Ticket prices have been increasing for the Men’s Olympic Gold Medal Hockey tickets since the Canadians beat the Russians. Now that Canada is playing the USA for Gold, prices look to continue up. We’ll be following closely.

Yes, we’re suckers for the big events here at FanSnap. Big events tend to be the matchups with the biggest ticket price and availability fluctuations. There are often tickets priced well below other tickets in the same row and fans find tremendous values, which adds to the fun. It turns out there is no hotter event than Men’s Olympic Gold Medal Hockey tickets.

Average price of an Olympic Ice Hockey ticket to the men's Gold Medal game on Sun, Feb 28 at 12:15PM

Currently, Men’s Olympic Gold Medal Hockey tickets are averaging more than $4,000. To put that into perspective, Super Bowl tickets earlier this month averaged between $2,500 and $3,000. World Series tickets averaged roughly $1,500. That makes Men’s Olympic Gold Medal Hockey tickets the single hottest ticket of the year — based on price.

Looking at the graph, you can see that ticket prices went up with each win by Team USA and Team Canada. What was less clear was which team’s fans were driving prices. After Team USA’s surprise win over Team Canada on February 21, it became clear that Team Canada fans were drive ticket prices.

How do we know? Take a look at the Whistler Mountain-shaped graph. Ticket prices were steadily increasing until the Team Canada loss. Ticket availability on the dozens of sites across the web FanSnap scours was also decreasing. Because Olympic Hockey is double elimination, Team Canada was not knocked out, but it was a lot less clear to Team Canada fans that their team would make it to the Gold Medal game. As a result Team Canada fans with tickets started selling.

Team Canada’s win over Germany slowed the decrease in price of Gold Medal tickets as some Team Canada fans regained hope that their team could in fact be golden. When they beat Russian last night, Team Canada fans again became believers… and started buying Gold Medal game tickets once again.

Canada must beat Slovakia to make it to the Gold Medal game. Team USA must beat Finland.

bracket from NBCOlympics.com

There’s no need to watch for scores tomorrow night to see if Team Canada will play for gold on February 28, just watch the ticket market for prices and availability. If ticket prices are going up and seats are scarce, Canada won.

Christian