NHL playoffs: The sky-high ticket prices for Round 1 home games in Canada

All four Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs have home games coming up in Round 1 and if you are looking to see one in person, it'll cost you a pretty penny. 

All four Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs have home games coming up and if you are looking to see one in person, it’ll cost you a pretty penny.

Tuesday night both Vancouver and Winnipeg play at home, followed by Toronto and Edmonton on Wednesday.

The most expensive tickets, according to Ticketmaster as of late Tuesday afternoon eastern time, were for the Toronto game, followed by Vancouver, then Edmonton and lastly Winnipeg.

In Toronto, the most expensive tickets stood at $2,711.25 for Game 3 of their series against Boston. They were resale tickets.

Moshe Lander, from the department of economics at Concordia University who also specializes in sports economics, said the sky-high prices all come down to supply and demand.

“It’s as simple as that,” he told Global News.

“The arenas have a fixed number of seats that are available, and all of a sudden, bandwagoner Leaf fans find their way to interest in the team and think that it’s now time to go to a game. And so all of those new fans that start showing up add to demand. And when demand increases and supply is fixed, prices go up.

“The Leafs are merely looking to capitalize on it. No different than the Jets, the Canucks, the Oilers, or any other American team that’s in the playoffs.”