BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 Buffalo Sabres fans are hitting the road to Boston for the team’s upcoming games. <\/p>\n
As of Monday, a single ticket on the secondary market for Game 2 in Buffalo at KeyBank Center cost around $380. Meanwhile, the price for Game 3 at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday was nearly $200 less.<\/p>\n
Aaron Kaczmarek of Cheektowaga is driving with a friend to Boston for Thursday’s playoff game.<\/p>\n
“Ticket prices are one reason, I’d say the local market was really high, and the tickets in Boston were a lot less expensive,” Kaczmarek said.<\/p>\n
Kaczmarek said he has been a Sabres fan his entire life and is thrilled to have the hometown team back in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
“05-06 was really when I fell in love real hard with the hockey team,” he said. “Just having playoff hockey back in Buffalo with this team, I just didn’t want to miss out.” <\/p>\n
WATCH: What you need to know if you’re traveling to Boston for the Buffalo Sabres playoff game<\/p>\n
What you need to know if you’re traveling to Boston for the Buffalo Sabres playoff game<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Carey, director of public relations for AAA, told me the ticket prices are one of several factors fans are considering when planning the trip.<\/p>\n
“A 1-hour flight if you have the money to spend on a ticket. Otherwise, driving there, it’s like 548 miles,” Carey said. “So, that’s going to take you about 7 hours. It’s going to cost about $108 on average vehicle for gas.” <\/p>\n
“Hotels are plentiful, about $200 a night, because Boston is such a big city,” Carey added. “There’s a lot of hotel availability. I checked today, and for either the Thursday or Sunday game, you can get some reasonable hotel rates not far away.” <\/p>\n
Kaczmarek said he is looking forward to cheering on the Sabres in enemy territory, calling it a pretty reasonable trip. <\/p>\n
“Kind of surreal. It’s been so long,” Kaczmarek said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 Buffalo Sabres fans are hitting the road to Boston for the team’s upcoming games.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[95,229,5,56898],"class_list":{"0":"post-557257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-hockey-playoff"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116442814809396572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557257","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=557257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}