Bolts ticket prices soar as team chases third-straight Cup

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, but ticket sellers on the secondary market have seen big gains.

By Business Observer Staff
| 1:00 p.m. June 16, 2022
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Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Tampa Bay Lightning are in pursuit of their third-consecutive Stanley Cup. Photo courtesy of Lisa Gansky/Wikimedia.

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The average resale price of tickets for Tampa Bay Lightning home games during the Stanley Cup Finals has skyrocketed from $567 in 2015, when the team lost to the Chicago Blackhawks, to $1,464 this year, as the Bolts square off against the Colorado Avalanche in pursuit of their third-straight NHL championship.

According to a news release from ticketing technology company Logitix, the 2022 price is also a $300, or nearly 26%, increase from 2021, when the Lighting defeated the Montreal Canadiens. (Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, fans were not allowed to attend the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals.)