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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Senators vs. Penguins
by Paul on 05/23/13 at 05:45 PM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
Following a 7-3 loss at the hands (or should we say flippers) of the Pittsburgh Penguins Wednesday night, the Ottawa Senators are on their last leg, down 3-1 to arguably the NHL’s top team.
Has the Senators’ luck run out, or did they simply run into an unstoppable force they couldn’t overpower with grit, hustle and focus, similar to how they dismantled the higher-seeded Montreal Canadiens earlier this month?
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Sharks vs. Kings
by Paul on 05/23/13 at 10:46 AM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
It was close late in Game 3, but in the end, Antti Niemi got it done for the San Jose Sharks. The veteran goalkeeper stopped 22 of 23 stops en route to a clutch victory for the Sharks, their second in a row.
It was also the second straight game where Niemi was near unbeatable. In games three and four he allowed only two goals combined, and give his team a decisive advantage on the ice. Niemi has posted a stellar 1.93 Goals Against Average this postseason.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Senators- Penguins
by Paul on 05/16/13 at 10:05 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
As far as upsets go, the Ottawa Senators’ surprising triumph over the Montreal Canadiens in round one of the playoffs was pretty memorable. The undermanned, unheralded squad took it to the Habs and proved that grit, determination and hustle are what win playoff hockey games, not flare and hesitation.
The Senators face an uphill battle in round two, though. Already one game down to the Pittsburgh Penguins, they cannot afford to dig themselves into a deeper hole against the league’s most high-powered offense.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Red Wings vs. Blackhawks
by Paul on 05/15/13 at 02:15 PM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
It took seven games, but a Detroit Red Wings team that almost didn’t make the playoffs showed up in a big way in the first round, ousting the second-seeded Anaheim Ducks in a series not many pundits expected the Wings to win. Not only did Detroit move on, they did so behind the stellar net play of star goalie Jimmy Howard, who posted a 2.74 Goals Against Average in the series.
Up front, the Wings had a balanced offensive attack, carrying six players who scored two or more goals in round one. Superstars Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk will always be the Wings’ bread and butter, but solid scoring outputs from grinders like Dan Cleary and Justin Abdelkader, which the Wings thankfully received, will propel Detroit to the next level.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
by Paul on 05/08/13 at 10:14 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
Through three games, the Bruins have shown flashes of brilliance, proving themselves to be astonishingly brutal in protecting their own net from oncoming traffic--be it both pucks and bodies--and vicious in their ability to turn the slightest Maple Leaf error into a turnover and a Boston goal.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Flyers @ Senators
by Paul on 04/26/13 at 02:59 PM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
The swan song is on for the Philadelphia Flyers’ 2012-2013 season, and what a disappointing campaign it was. In Philadelphia, expectations were high, as always. Nothing clicked for the Flyers this season, however.
Pricey goalie Ilya Bryzgalov was there one night, and veritably absent the next. Claude Giroux was high-flying, and Jakub Voracek exceeded expectations, but where was Danny Briere all season long, and why were the Flyers forwards so defensively lacking?
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Penguins @ Bruins
by Paul on 04/18/13 at 10:05 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein of TiqIQ
In what was most likely the most emotion-filled game of the 2012-2013 campaign, the Boston Bruins dominated the Buffalo Sabres Wednesday night for two periods, but were unable to clinch a victory in the third, squandering a one goal lead and eventually losing in the shootout.
For Boston, the loss was not a reason for dismay. After the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, the city used the game to come together and push the horrors of the blasts out of its mind.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Islanders @ Maple Leafs
by Paul on 04/17/13 at 10:13 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein of TiqIQ,
To hockey diehards, from the New York area or outside of it, the New York Islanders are this season’s feel good story. The franchise, which hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2006 and advanced beyond the first round since 1993, was again pegged by many at the beginning of the season to finish at the bottom of the Atlantic Division, behind perennial contenders like the Devils, Penguins and Rangers.
The Islanders never got that memo. After beating the Panthers Tuesday night, they’re 22-16 and sit in sixth place, three points ahead of the eighth place Rangers. A rebuilding process in Long Island that began with drafting scoring phenom John Tavares first overall in the 2009 draft is beginning to reap dividends for the Isles. The Ontario-born center is joined upfront by Brad Boyes and Matt Moulson, who together form one of the NHL’s most underrated lines.,
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Senators @ Bruins
by Paul on 04/13/13 at 09:00 AM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
Not many would have predicted that going into the 2012-2013 season, the Northeast Division would arguably be the NHL’s most competitive. That’s how things have turned out, however, and teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators--who many experts and fans discarded before the season started--have ended up shocking the hockey world.
The Senators, in particular, had excelled against all odds. Who would have thought that a team decimated by injuries and without established firepower, which has for months looked more like the Binghamton Senators than the Ottawa Senators, would not just be in possession of a playoff spot with less than four weeks to go in the season, but the 6th seed in the East?
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Red Wings @ Blackhawks
by Paul on 04/10/13 at 02:58 PM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
The Red Wings and Blackhawks get together Friday night in Chicago and tickets are currently averaging $410, making this the most expensive Hawks-Wings tilt this season, according to TiqIQ. Normally, tickets to see the Blackhawks at the United Center average $265/seat, making this matchup is 55% more expensive than the team’s home average. Get-in rates are available for $174 per seat. Prices are down 14%, however, so there's a chance they will continue to drop as game day approaches.
Hockey fans aren’t used to storylines about the Detroit Red Wings fighting for their playoff lives. Normally, the Wings’ postseason chances are seemingly guaranteed the first day of the season, and not like the Panthers’ are. We know the Wings are going to get in. It seems like a foregone conclusion year after year.
This year is different, however.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Bruins vs. Canadiens
by Paul on 04/05/13 at 11:07 AM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
The Bruins and Canadiens never like each other, especially when they’re fighting for the top seed in the Northeast Division. As of Thursday morning, only one point separates the two teams. That one point could dictate who gets home ice in the dog days of the NHL playoffs this season. Each team plays once before their Saturday tilt, which means any lead is tenuous. Saturday morning, the Bruins could very well be in first.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Rangers vs. Penguins
by Paul on 04/04/13 at 11:04 AM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
Can the Penguins have all hands on deck? The wildly successful franchise this season can’t seem to get all of its stars healthy at once. “Star” is the operative word here. The Penguins have many. They just reeled in superstar Jarome Iginla over the trading deadline, but lost Sidney Crosby, who was having one of the best seasons of his career, to a broken jaw.
As always, affording a Friday night game at Madison Square Garden is never easy. According to TiqIQ, New York Rangers tickets for this Friday night’s tilt with the Penguins will run fans an average of $312. Normally, the Rangers’ home average is $268, which makes this matchup 16 percent more expensive. Bargains are available, however. Tickets can can still be found on the low-end for $151.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Blackhawks vs. Red Wings
by Paul on 03/30/13 at 12:15 PM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
For hockey fans, Original Six matchups are what the sport is built on. Even as it’s expanded to the far reaches of North America, hockey relies on these six teams to be the cornerstone of its history, intensity and vivacity.
In the Midwest, Blackhawks-Red Wings battles are some of the NHL’s most anticipated and hard-fought. So far this season, the matchup has belonged to the Hawks, who’ve bested the Wings twice, each time by a margin of only one goal. The games have been low-scoring, feverishly-paced and decided in the final minutes of the effort. Both Blackhawks victories have come in overtime, with the latter win coming in the shootout.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Blackhawks vs. Ducks
by Paul on 03/28/13 at 01:15 PM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
Once the darlings of the NHL and American sporting lure as a whole, the Chicago Blackhawks, having gone the first 24 games of the 2012-2013 campaign without a regulation loss, have fallen back down to earth ever so slightly since the Avalanche broke their record on March 8. Since that date, the team is a more mortal 3-3, though they did beat the Dallas Stars by seven goals two weeks ago. That shellacking is indicative of what the Hawks are able to do to teams when they’re at their best--score at will and cede nothing in their own end. Their six regular defenseman are all on the plus side and their worst plus/minus offender, Sheldon Brookbank, is a paltry -4. That’s a number the team is willing to live with.
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Ticket Preview: Bruins vs. Maple Leafs
by Paul on 03/22/13 at 03:41 PM ET
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By Eli Epstein of TiqIQ,
The 2012-2013 shortened NHL campaign has been one of the most competitive seasons the Northeast division has experienced in the past decade. As of Friday, four teams (the Canadiens, Bruins, Senators and Maple Leafs, in that order) are separated by 10 points or less going into the dog days of the season.
The Leafs and Bruins will square off on the front end of a home-and-home series Saturday night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Average prices for the tilt are $281, which is six percent higher than the $266 average of Maple Leafs tickets in Toronto this season. On the bright side, tickets are down 17 percent this week and fans can attend the game for as low as $75 per seat. Overall, this is the most expensive Bruins-Leaf matchup in Toronto this season.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Capitals @ Bruins
by Paul on 03/15/13 at 11:20 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
In the dogfight that is the top of the Eastern Conference, the Boston Bruins can’t afford to give games away like they did Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, where they showed up, played a great first period, and then disappeared in the 2nd and 3rd, allowing the Penguins to skate wherever they wanted and plant a flag in the Bruins’ defensive zone.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Edmonton @ Colorado
by Paul on 03/12/13 at 09:54 AM ET
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By Matthew Feuerman of TiqIQ,
In the crowded Northwest division, only five points separate the Edmonton Oilers (who are currently in fourth place) and the Minnesota Wild, who, while in first, sit there less than comfortably. One slot higher than the Oilers are the Avalanche, who, like the team from Edmonton, sit near .500 and feel the push to right the ship and succeed now rather than later, which the shortened season doesn’t afford them the opportunity to do.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Penguins @ Flyers, Thursday March 7th
by Paul on 03/05/13 at 06:30 PM ET
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By Matt Linsky, TiqIQ
Another chapter of the battle for Pennsylvania will take place on Wednesday, when the Pittsburgh Penguins and their high-powered offense cruise into Philadelphia to take on the Flyers. This heated rivalry might be the best one going in the NHL right now, as there is always an abundance of goals, fights, and hits when these interstate rivals take the ice.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Bruins @ Capitals
by Paul on 03/04/13 at 11:15 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
In last year’s NHL playoffs, the second-seeded Boston Bruins were expected to easily dispatch the 7th-seeded Washington Capitals, a team that many felt was flimsy in its own end and untested in net.
The opposite proved to be true, however, as the plucky Capitals took the Bruins to seven games and wore them down in the series finale, capping off a dogged seven-game effort with a Joel Ward game-winner that Bruins fans won’t soon forget. The star of the 2011-2012 Capitals-Bruins series was Washington goaltender Braden Holtby, who rose from relative obscurity to start every single one of the Capitals’ games that postseason, posting a sub-two goals against average.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Capitals @ Flyers
by Paul on 02/27/13 at 11:30 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
As NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, the NHL Players Association and the league’s owners promised, the shortened 2013 hockey season would not be lacking action. The activity has been end to end, the finishes have been dramatic and the play has been upbeat and largely spectacular.
While many teams haven’t skipped a beat, some franchises have struggled out of the gate. In a truncated season, that means that now, nearly halfway through the 2013 campaign, is the time that a limping franchise needs to turn it on or kiss their playoff hopes goodbye.
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Red Wings @ Kings
by Paul on 02/26/13 at 09:00 PM ET
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By Matthew Linsky, TiqIQ
Two of the hottest teams in the NHL will square off in LA on Wednesday. The average ticket for this game is $105.64, ten dollars more than the average Los Angeles Kings tickets price for a home game, $95.06. The Red Wings are one of the most prestigious franchises in the NHL, always drawing a big crowd, and expensive-ticket prices. According to TiqIQ, Detroit Red Wings tickets average a $137.08 road price on the secondary market, ranking them amongst the highest in the NHL. At only $36 the “get-in” price provides tremendous value, for what could be one of the best hockey games played in LA this season- you don’t want to miss it
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Capitals ticket prices up slightly despite slow start
by Paul on 02/12/13 at 01:30 PM ET
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By Dan Groob, TiqIQ
The Washington Capitals are disappointing again, and fans are none too pleased. Coming off a 2011 season which saw the Capitals finish with the most points in the Eastern Conference, last season’s 7th place finish and second round exit represented multiple steps in the wrong direction. This year, things might even be worse.
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Ticket prices up on strength of Blackhawks early success
by Paul on 02/11/13 at 02:51 PM ET
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By Dan Groob, TiqIQ
Nearly a month into the season and the Chicago Blackhawks have registered nary a loss. With 20 points in 11 games, the Blackhawks have actually done most of their damage on the road this season, throwing up a 7-0-2 mark away from the United Center.
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Fans excited as Ovechkin and Capitals eye bounce-back season, redemption
by Paul on 01/31/13 at 01:37 PM ET
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By Dan Groob, TiqIQ
After finishing 2011 with the best record in the East, the Washington Capitals took a step back last season as they tied Ottawa for the fewest points among playoff teams before getting bounced in the first round by the New York Rangers. With Alexander Ovechkin finishing 2012 with a career-worst 65 points, his first time below a point-per-game pace during his impressive career, he was far and away the most disappointing individual player in the league. Teams tend to go as their star goes, and as a result of Ovechkin’s less than stellar play, the Capitals underachieved tremendously.
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Blackhawks excitement rising in Chicago as team gets off to fast start
by Paul on 01/29/13 at 12:54 PM ET
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by Dan Grrob, TiqIQ
Just two weeks into the 2013 NHL season, the Chicago Blackhawks can stake a serious claim as the team to beat across the league. Chicago enters week three at a perfect 6-0, with four of those wins coming on the road. But it is actually back home at the United Center where the Blackhawks are one of the biggest draws in hockey.
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Excitement brews for Stanley Cup favorite Rangers, ticket prices up 44% from last season
by Paul on 01/22/13 at 12:41 PM ET
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By Dan Groob, TiqIQ
Despite the 0-2 start, hockey fans in New York are geared up about the NHL season. According to TiqIQ, New York Rangers tickets are currently among the most expensive NHL tickets in the league, at an average price of $241 dollars on the secondary market. This is up 44% over last year’s average ticket price of $174 dollars.
Excitement is high for the Rangers, and with good reason. Over the past three seasons, New York has climbed from missing the playoffs, to barely sneaking into the playoffs, to finishing tied for the most wins in the NHL last year. This season, it’s Cup or Bust for the boys in blue, as they enter the lockout-shortened season as the favorite (7:1) to take home the most coveted trophy in sports. With prized free agent signing Rick Nash slated to play left wing on the first line with Brad Richards and Marion Garborik, the Rangers have added some scoring punch to what was already the best defense in the Eastern Conference last season.
