{"id":469861,"date":"2026-02-24T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:46:13","slug":"devils-ticket-prices-see-spike-after-jack-hughes-golden-goal-for-team-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469861\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils ticket prices see spike after Jack Hughes\u2019 golden goal for Team USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">New data shows that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/22\/us-defeats-canada-for-olympic-gold-in-mens-hockey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/22\/us-defeats-canada-for-olympic-gold-in-mens-hockey\/\">U.S. men\u2019s hockey team\u2019s gold medal victory<\/a> at the Milan Cortina Games has \u201cled to a spike in ticket sales for regular season hockey games online,\u201d according to Tim Chan of VARIETY. The \u201cget-in price\u201d for upcoming Devils games &#8212; featuring C Jack Hughes, who scored the winning goal in the gold-medal match &#8212; has \u201cmore than doubled,\u201d per Gametime. Wednesday\u2019s game between the Devils and the Sabres shows a \u201c127% price increase.\u201d Gametime noted, \u201cThis kind of demand spike is typically reserved for playoff runs and championship celebrations\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/shopping\/athletes\/buy-nhl-hockey-game-tickets-online-best-prices-cheap-seats-1236670926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/shopping\/athletes\/buy-nhl-hockey-game-tickets-online-best-prices-cheap-seats-1236670926\/\">VARIETY, 2\/23<\/a>). In Newark, Joey Chandler noted the \u201ccheapest seats\u201d for Devils-Sabres at the time of publication were running for $47 on VividSeats,\u202f$52 on SeatGeek and\u202f$46 on StubHub (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/event-tickets\/2026\/02\/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-see-olympic-gold-medalist-jack-hughes-return-to-the-devils-wednesday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/event-tickets\/2026\/02\/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-see-olympic-gold-medalist-jack-hughes-return-to-the-devils-wednesday.html\">Newark STAR-LEDGER, 2\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">ON THE SCHEDULE: In Newark, Ryan Novozinsky noted there is reportedly \u201c\u2018some uncertainty\u2019 as to when some members of Team USA will rejoin their NHL clubs for the post-Olympic NHL slate.\u201d A source said that the Devils are \u201cstill \u2018waiting on schedule updates\u2019 to see what Hughes\u2019 availability is\u201d for the Sabres game. Novozinsky noted there are \u201ctwo factors at play\u201d with a blizzard in the northeastern U.S. \u201caffecting travel plans\u201d and President Trump inviting members of Team USA to his State of the Union address, which takes place Tuesday at 9pm ET. It is \u201cunclear whether Hughes will attend or not\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/2026\/02\/will-devils-jack-hughes-play-vs-sabres-latest-on-team-usa-gold-medal-hero.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/2026\/02\/will-devils-jack-hughes-play-vs-sabres-latest-on-team-usa-gold-medal-hero.html\">Newark STAR-LEDGER, 2\/23<\/a>). The Bergen RECORD wrote whether or not Hughes does take the ice on Wednesday, \u201csome fans will be treated to a giveaway in his honor.\u201d The Devils announced a \u201cHughes-themed jack-in-the-box giveaway for the game, with the first 9,000 fans in attendance qualifying for the deal\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/devils\/2026\/02\/23\/when-jack-hughes-play-next-game-nj-devils-schedule-olympics\/88833842007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/devils\/2026\/02\/23\/when-jack-hughes-play-next-game-nj-devils-schedule-olympics\/88833842007\/\">Bergen RECORD, 2\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data shows that the U.S. men\u2019s hockey team\u2019s gold medal victory at the Milan Cortina Games has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,28860,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-469861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-milan-cortina","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116126861543404611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}