On paper, we will see good news: all the tickets for the Montreal LPHF team’s match on April 20, which will be played at the Bell Center, found takers in a few minutes, this Wednesday morning. However, resellers took the opportunity to make good deals.
The Professional Women’s Hockey League recently announced that the match against Toronto initially scheduled for April 21 would ultimately be played the day before at the home of the Montreal Canadiens. In particular, we hope to break the absolute attendance record for a women’s hockey match.
Individual tickets, released at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, were all sold out in less than 20 minutes. However, seeing the prices observed in the following moments on the resale sites, we understand that the love of women’s sport was not the only driving force behind this flash sale.
On tickets.ca, several dozen seats are already available at prices ranging from $109 to $275. On the StubHub site, there are hundreds of them. The most expensive ones retail for $493 each. This while all the tickets sold through the traditional route, through TicketMaster, cost less than $100.
“The resale situation exists, in Montreal and elsewhere; I understand, and at the same time, I don’t understand. It’s part of the sports industry, it seems,” said the team’s general director, Danièle Sauvageau, during a press scrum held Wednesday morning on the sidelines of club training. .
“I would have preferred that the tickets remained where they should be to tell our supporters: we want you to be there and that you pay the prices that we consider to be good,” she added.
Otherwise, she described the enthusiasm generated by next month’s event as “extraordinary”. “I don’t want to tell you that I knew everything was going to be sold out, but seeing the fans at Place Bell and here [à l’Auditorium de Verdun], […] we believed we would achieve the objectives,” underlined M.me Savage.
Last month, Montreal and Toronto sold out the Queen City, playing a match in front of 19,285 people. This record will be broken if the approximately 21,000 seats at the Bell Center are occupied on April 20.
With Katherine Harvey-Pinard, The Press