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Ticket Prices Spike For Cup Final's Game 5 With Penguins' Chance To Clinch At Home

The average cost of a ticket to tomorrow's Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final at Consol Energy Center "more than doubled after the Penguins defeated the Sharks in Game 4 Monday night," according to Dan Majors of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. Once the Penguins won, taking a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series, the average selling price "jumped to $700 -- and kept going up." StubHub Communications Manager Cameron Papp said, "It’s going to keep climbing. The cheapest one listed (last night) was $1,000. There were fans able to get tickets cheaper earlier in the series, but now buyers have started to flood the market for Game 5." N.Y.-based ticket seller Rukkus Data Analyst & Content Manager Jake Adelman said that the "cheapest Game 5 seat they had went from $664 to $919 shortly after Game 4 ended." Those were "quickly gobbled up." Adelman said that the average price last night was $2,056. Vivid Seats spokesperson Courtney Cohen said that her company "tracked the median price of tickets through the first four games of the Stanley Cup Final as: Games 1 and 2 in Pittsburgh -- $1,375; Games 3 and 4 in San Jose -- $1,168." A ticket to Game 5 in Pittsburgh "spiked from $1,063 to $1,547" following Game 4 (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 6/8). In Pittsburgh, Jerry DiPaola in a front-page piece notes median prices for Game 5 are "approaching $1,300, which Blackhawks fans paid for the decisive game in Chicago" last year. StubHub's Papp said that tickets to previous games in that series in Tampa "were cheaper -- between $350 and $475." Papp: "It comes down to the age-old supply and demand. It is making it a seller's market right now" (PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 6/8). USA TODAY's A.J. Perez noted it has "been more than 55 years since a major sports franchise in Pittsburgh has clinched a title" at home (USATODAY.com, 6/7).

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