Avalanche vs Lightning, 2022 Stanley Cup final: how to get tickets and how much do they cost?
Tampa Bay Lightning, winners of the last two seasons of the North American ice hockey league (NHL) face Colorado Avalanche for the Stanley Cup.
The Tampa Bay Lightning, winners of the last two seasons of the North American ice hockey league (NHL), qualified for their third consecutive final by eliminating the New York Rangers 4-2 on aggregate on Saturday.
The Lightning, champions of the Eastern Conference, will face the Colorado Avalanche, who swept the Edmonton Oilers 4-0 in the Western Conference final, in the Stanley Cup starting Wednesday.
Tampa Bay clinched the ticket with a dramatic comeback in the playoffs against the Rangers, who had opened with a big lead by winning the first two games.
The Lightning then turned the playoffs around with four straight wins, the latest of which came on Saturday by a score of 2-1.
Captain Steven Stamkos scored both goals for the defending champions, sparking jubilation among the 19,000 fans at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
“These are the games you live for as a kid,” said Canada’s Stamkos. “To make it to the finals three years in a row is an amazing thing and to be a part of it tonight was certainly the icing on the cake.”
The Lightning are now aiming to become the first team to win three straight Stanley Cups since the New York Islanders won four between 1980 and 1983.
No team has qualified for three straight NHL Finals since the Edmonton Oilers did it from 1983-85.
Stanley Cup tickets
Fans hoping to catch one of the final games will need to have deep pockets and that particularly applies to Denver based ice hockey lovers where tickets are over four times as expensive as they are to catch one of the games in Florida.
Tickets to watch the Avalanche at the 20,000 capacity Ball Arena located in downtown Denver start at $879 for game 1 but increase to $1000 for Game 2 and 5 on June 18/24 respectively.
Not famed for being a hot-bed for ice hockey, tickets for games at the Amalie Arena in Tampa are a little more affordable with tickets being advertised from $279. However a cursory search via Ticketmaster shows the lowest ‘terrace’ ticket for the first game in Florida now costing over $500 as fans snap up the final tickets ahead of what could be an historical Finals for the Lightning.