The Vancouver Canucks arguably played the worst two games of their 2011 Stanley Cup playoff run in Boston. Getting outscored 12-1 in two games at TD Garden, the Canucks were unable to put a strangle hold on the series after winning Games 1 and 2 at home.
However, now that the series shifts back to Vancouver, it's essentially a three-game series to hoist the Stanley Cup. Two of these three games (if the series goes seven games) will be held at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
So why, according to cbc.ca, are ticket prices dropping for what will be one of the biggest games in the franchise's history?
"Ticket prices are always so dependent on how well a team does, or on the flipside, how poorly a team does," said Joellen Ferrer of the reseller StubHub in the article. "So we've seen prices come down quite a bit from what we've seen over the last few days."
Tickets fell from $1,500 to $1,000, according to cbc.ca, after "fans apparently lost heart" and resold their tickets for Game 5.
So, regardless of the fact that the Canucks still have a chance to win their first Cup in team history, fans are treating Game 5 like the Canucks are coming home after some regular-season skid in December.
This should be the hottest ticket in all of sports right now. Instead of being disheartened, like many of their players on the ice during Games 3 and 4, fans should be jacked up with their team playing on home ice in the biggest game of the series so far.
Instead, fans would appear to prefer waiting it out for a potential Game 7 — a game that might not even happen. Witnessing potential history is apparently more important than being involved in a pivotal game.
"What the fans want is they want to witness history," Kingsley Bailey of VancouverTickets.com told cbc.ca. "And you're not really going to witness history with a Game 5 now. You can only witness it now with a Game 7."
Tickets for Game 7 are expected to go for $10,000, according to the report.
