$5,500 per! Montreal Canadiens playoff tickets going for extreme surge prices

Montreal Canadiens fans can expect to pay as much as $575 for a nosebleed ticket to the upcoming playoff games against the Washington Capitals. (Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press) (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

So you want to go to a Habs playoff game?

Get ready to pay.

Tickets went on sale on Saturday for the two Montreal Canadiens home games against the Washington Capitals.

*This article was published before 1 p.m., so ticket prices may be well above the prices quoted below.

They went on sale at noon, completely sold out, and within 10 minutes, resellers were charging over $400 for nosebleeds.

Within a half hour, those tickets were gone and top row, touch the ceiling seats requiring opera glasses to make out a number on the back of a sweater were going for over $550.

A season ticket holder told CTV News that the family’s $300 tickets in the lower bowl were reselling for $1,700 in the same section within an hour.

Those tickets would be a deal by 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, as lower bowl tickets were selling north of $2,000 and even $3,000 in some sections.

A pair of tickets behind the Capitals’ bench was selling for $5,573 each for Friday’s game.

Front row tickets for Sunday’s game two, were selling for over $6,700.

As a comparison, Winnipeg Jets tickets against the St. Louis Blues begin at $220 and with lower bowl tickets selling for $440. Game two games

The games on April 25 and 27 will be the first full crowd playoff Habs games since 2017, as the last playoff run was during the COVID-19 pandemic with reduced capacity.

Game six tickets (if the series goes that far) were starting at over $350 on billets.ca.