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You probably can’t afford to attend a Vegas Golden Knights playoff game

By Michelle Bruton

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 17: A member of the Vegas Golden Knights Golden Aces (L) and the team's mascot Chance the Golden Gila Monster cheer in the crowd during the Golden Knights' game against the Buffalo Sabres at T-Mobile Arena on October 17, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Golden Knights won 5-4 in overtime. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 17: A member of the Vegas Golden Knights Golden Aces (L) and the team's mascot Chance the Golden Gila Monster cheer in the crowd during the Golden Knights' game against the Buffalo Sabres at T-Mobile Arena on October 17, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Golden Knights won 5-4 in overtime. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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The city of Las Vegas is embracing its wildly successful new hockey team, the Golden Knights…but tickets this late in the playoffs are becoming very hard to come by.

Everyone plans to spend big when they’re in Vegas, right?

Well, what if “big,” in this case, meant dropping $4,000 to see the Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Playoffs?

Yes, you read that correctly. According to TicketCity, Golden Knights tickets for Wednesday and Friday night’s games are going for as much as $4,000 on the secondary market.

For Friday’s home game, even tickets located 12 rows off the glass in Row L are going for more than $1,000 a pop. Believe it or not, that’s in excess of ticket prices for last year’s Stanley Cup Final!

Courtesy of TicketCity
Courtesy of TicketCity /

All in all, the Golden Knights have the most expensive playoff home game tickets of the four teams left in the postseason:

  • Vegas Golden Knights: $558
  • Winnipeg Jets: $308
  • Tampa Bay Lightning: $286
  • Washington Capitals: $226

As VitalVegas pointed out, tickets for the Second Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, in which the Golden Knights faced the San Jose Sharks, were 55 percent more expensive than the First Round against the Los Angeles Kings. They went up another 76 percent in cost for the Third Round series against the Winnipeg Jets.

In their debut season, the Golden Knights are doing everything they can to create a competitive home environment. The team offered season ticket-holders the ability to get a discount on their playoff tickets by taking a “Knights Vow,” promising they would not re-sell them.

That’s great for an advantage, but it’s made the ticket market for non-season ticketholders exorbitant this postseason.

Of course, the best way to build a strong home-ice advantage is to make sure actual fans of the team can attend the games, and in that sense, the Golden Knights may need to think about ways to encourage team-sanctioned resale opportunities or other ways to keep ticket prices from reaching Stratosphere-level proportions.

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