Chance To See Blackhawks Win Cup On Home Ice Driving Up Ticket Prices
(CBS) -- Just how much will it cost you to see the Blackhawks-Lightning Game 6 in person on Monday night at the United Center? Some sellers are asking for thousands of dollars a ticket to for a chance to see the Blackhawks make history. Whether they'll actually get that much is another story.
No Chicago sports team has clinched a championship at home since the Bulls did it in 1997, and no Blackhawks team has won it all on home ice in 77 years, which means the chance to see the Hawks clinch the cup in Chicago is driving ticket prices sky high.
For Chicago ticket broker Steve Buzil, a Hawks championship Game 6 at home is like Christmas and New Year's rolled into one.
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"It can't get much better than this," he said. "It's truly is good."
He said right now you can buy seats in the 200 level for $3,200.
Max Waisvisz with Gold Coast tickets says so far the most expensive ticket he's sold is at $12,000.
"The pricing has to go up because we're almost out of tickets," he said.
Waisvisz says the cheapest tickets he has for sale are at just over $900 a piece for standing room tickets.
The Blackhawks haven't won the Cup at home since 1938. Even so, says Buzil, some sellers are getting a little greedy.
"Nobody's paying six, seven, eight thousand dollars to go sit in a seat," Buzil said. "You got to be out of your mind, and I'm a broker telling you that."
Buzil predicts by Monday that prices will moderate a bit, even for good seats.
"Three thousand, four thousand, 4,500, that's the meat and potatoes of where the 200 and 100 level are going to trade at," he said.
But Hawks fan Jerry Jasinski is still no fan of those prices and says his wife wouldn't be happy if he spent the money.
"I probably wouldn't even go home that night," he said. "I'd go to the game and then I'd go find somewhere else to live because she's never allow me back in the house."
But money manager A.J. Kratofil says, "You can't put a price tag on memories like that."
