Hey r/leafs, I built a site called ticketdata.com and launched it here on reddit last month. It tracks ticket prices for all events on the resale sites (think StubHub, etc).

I have been digging into teams that show really consistent price patterns, and the Leafs are one of the clearest cases. Every home game this season has seen prices fall steadily until about 1 to 2 days before game day. In the final 1-2 days, a few games saw a small/moderate bump, but most just kept on dropping.

So far, *ALL 14* home games this season followed the same pattern:

  • Prices fell from 1 month out until 1 week before the game
  • Prices kept falling from 1 week before the game until at least 3 days out

(Prices usually continued to drop from 3 days out until game day, but there were a few exceptions to this)

The image I posted show the price trend for all 14 games thus far. The link below will let you see all upcoming games (or you can click the Past tab to see the earlier games).

https://www.ticketdata.com/?performer=Toronto+Maple+Leafs&tab=upcoming

These things can shift as the season goes on, but I think this trend will probably hold at least until the holidays (or unless the team starts going on a streak, apologies for the soft start, still only 2 points out of a WC spot, congrats on the OT win last night)

I know a big request will be seeing prices in CAD. Right now everything is in USD, but I am working on adding CAD display for Canadian events. For now it will have to be a bit of quick mental math!

33 comments

  1. Was in Toronto recently, someone mentioned a leafs game and I immediately replied, absolutely not.

  2. Not a secret the tickets aren’t selling but this shows it.

    Saying it for yeara, this is what happens when you price out a generation of fans.   Youre only going to have demand when youre good, not all the time like they’ve been used to.

  4. The Leafs only win in the last six games was against the St. Louis fucking Blues, and included an own goal.

  6. Good, fuck Rogers and fuck Bell. They have no incentive to improve the team if they’re selling out at those ridiculous prices all the time.

  8. Yea, I’m not surprised. MLSE is bleeding money from the Leafs right now. Fans are frustrated and the lack of revenue is partially why they restructured. While the brand is healthy, the Leafs are decidedly not. That’s what happens when you play stupid games in the office and don’t let your decision makers make the tough trades.

  13. People are also getting squeezed everywhere else financially. These big corporations are endlessly gouging us at every turn then are surprised when there’s nothing left for disposable income.

  14. I paid less for ALCS tickets than I would a few weeks back for upper bowl Leafs tickets on a regular season game. Why would I ever pay that?

  15. We’re finally speaking with our wallets. That said, I went to a game for the first time in 8 years last month, because the price was finally worth it. I know viewership is down for sure too, I hope they finally feel unsafe in the TML money generator machine.

  16. Since I live close to the arena I like to check ticket prices within 30 minutes of the game starting and last night I saw resale prices on Ticketmaster lower than I had ever seen before.

    Upper bowl of course, but we’re talking around $120-$140 for a ticket within the first 5 rows. Still a bit pricey, but even standing room was about $80 a ticket.

    No, I still didn’t go to the game.

  18. I’m shocked ticket prices went down in conjunction with the Jays going on a run to the World Series during the first month of the NHL season. /s

  21. Right now they’d have to pay me to come watch their on ice product.

    If I got to pay for parking, over priced concessions, and deal with Gardiner traffic.. the last they could do is give me a free seat to watch them overwhelmingly lose at home.

  22. I saw a post yesterday about the low prices for the game. Then this post today. Then listening to Leafs Talk this morning, they mentioned how the crowd was popping off for essentially a nothing gane vs the blues. This got me thinking, with the lower prices, the real fans actually get to come in and make some noise. Much better atmosphere.

  23. I don’t know the exact number, but I’d venture to say 90-95% of the tickets are to season ticket holders. So MLSE got their insanely increased prices already. It’s the ticket holders losing $$, not MLSE.

  24. They should be going down, I’ve only gone to two leaf games in my life because of the cost

  25. I know lots of suppliers who can’t even give away tickets for free right now. Let’s keep dragging these prices down.

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