Get Ready: Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals Tickets Go On Sale At Noon

By Jim Bochnowski in News on Jun 2, 2015 3:55PM

Jonathan Toews celebrates a third period goal against the Los Angeles Kings during last year's 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Get your credit cards ready, Blackhawks fans, Stanley Cup Finals tickets officially go on sale at noon.

For most of us, tickets will be available online through Ticketmaster and by phone at 800-745-3000. Season ticket holders have already had their chance to buy tickets, so the quantity of "normal" tickets will be artificially constrained.

As StubHub regional manager Jeff Doden mentions, these won't exactly be the greatest seats in the United Center. “It’ll probably be a lot of standing room only tickets, just because there’s not necessarily season ticket holders for those. So, yeah, I don’t know. It’ll probably be pretty limited," Doden told CBS Chicago.

Which is probably why prices on the secondary ticket market are so out of control for Chicago fans. According to Forbes, Blackhawks tickets in Chicago on TiqIQ are averaging $1,639.28, which as a series average could be the highest cost of the past five years, when TiqIQ started tracking the market. Right now, almost any seat behind goal at United Center will cost at least $2,000, if not more. Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup Finals tickets, on the other hand, are only averaging $992.45, which would be the least expensive finals since TiqIQ started tracking the market.

Overall, the Tampa Bay average brings the full series down to grab the spot of the second least expensive Stanley Cup Finals of the last five years. But unless you live in a Florida and have a sunshine state billing address, it's still gonna cost ya. But what's $2,000 when you can watch Patrick Kane score in person?