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With a 1-0 series lead over the Washington Capitals in the NHL’s Stanley Cup Final, the Vegas Golden Knights are still commanding a pretty penny for tickets at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights, who are poised to become the first expansion team across any American major professional sport to win a league championship, are helping to make the series the most expensive since on the secondary market since TicketIQ.com began tracking data in 2011.

As of Tuesday, the average asking price for a ticket to the Stanley Cup Final was $1,983, more than $400 more than the next highest Stanley Cup Final on the secondary market. The 2014 Los Angeles Kings-New York Rangers cost an average of $1,573, the previous high.

The series continues Wednesday in Las Vegas with Game 2.

The $2,052 average asking price for a ticket at T-Mobile Arena is the fifth most expensive for a Stanley Cup Final since TicketIQ began tracking data in 2011, while the $1,891 to see the Washington Capitals play at home is the sixth priciest.

Vegas fans have been driving ticket prices throughout the playoffs. The average asking price for the Stanley Cup Final is down – from an average of $2,036 on May 28 to the $1,983 on May 29 – but most of the decline has been in demand for Washington tickets. In fact, the average asking price rose for Game 2 in Vegas during that 24-hour period, from $1,512 to $1,570 and the average asking price for Game 5 went up $2, from $2,664 to $2,666. The only game at T-Mobile to see a drop in average asking price is Game 7, from $2,484 on May 28, to $2,319 on May 29.

During that same span, the average asking price for a ticket in Washington fell nearly $90 from $1,979 to $1,892.

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Will the Vegas Golden Knights become the first expansion team in the history of major professional sports to win it all?

Fans sure hope so and are driving up ticket prices as the team prepares for its Stanley Cup Finals second-round series against the San Jose Sharks tonight. Both teams swept their first-round opponents and have been off for more than a week.

According to TicketIQ.com, the average asking price for a ticket to see the Golden Knights play at T-Mobile Arena is the second highest across the NHL. The $621 asking price on the secondary market represents a 28 percent increase over the cost of tickets to opening round against the Los Angeles Kings. Only the Winnipeg Jets ($632) are commanding a higher price at home. The cheapest average asking price on the secondary market is $229 in Pittsburgh. The Jets (No. 1) and Golden Knights (No. 2) have the highest average asking prices for a second-round NHL playoff game since TicketIQ began tracking data in 2011.

The Golden Knights can host up to four games, and none of them will be cheap. The most expensive asking price is for an if-needed Game 7, which is currently at $797. The least expensive asking price if for Game 1 ($495) while and Game 2 ($631) is the second most expensive and Game 5 ($562) is third. The overall series average asking price on the secondary market is $467 and it will be significantly cheaper to see a game in San Jose ($261).

The get-in price at T-Mobile Arena ranges from $156 for Game 1 up to $214 for Game 7. It’s just $98 for Game 3 and $99 for Game 4 in San Jose.

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With a 1-0 win in over the LA Kings first ever playoff game on Wednesday, the NHL’s expansion-team extraordinaire Vegas Golden Knights continue their miracle season. While technically not the first expansion team to reach the NHL playoffs, they’re the first to do so in the modern NHL expansion era, which began in 1991.
At 7/1 odds to win the oldest trophy in sports, their casino neighbors have also made them one of the favorites to win the Stanley Cup–definitely a first.

As a result, demand for Vegas Golden Knights playoff tickets are the third most expensive in the first round. For tickets to Game 2 register on TicketIQ and use referral code SINBIN to get $20 off your first purchase. You can register here.

Having filled T-Mobile arena at 103% during the regular season, it’s been high demand since October when #VegasBorn was born. Whether or not the Knights are still playing in the June desert heat, the season has been more successful than anyone could have imagined. While Vegas is technically the 5th expansion team to qualify for the playoffs, they’re certainly the best. While neither the Whalers, Nordiques or Oilers made it out of the first round, they were also not truly expansion teams. They’d been competing in the World Hockey Association for years. Additionally, after the NHL- WHA merger, 16 of 21 teams qualified for the playoff, which made it hard to not qualify.

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