from Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times,

In short, Kraken tickets are now the NHL’s most expensive by far — averaging $390 on secondary market resale platforms such as Ticketmaster and SeatGeek. That’s 6% higher than the next closest team, the Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights, at $367 per ticket....

That news couldn’t be better for the Kraken, who next spring will seek season ticket renewals from fans on minimum three-year plans. It’s a much better outlook than a year ago, after a dismal 60-point Kraken debut campaign sent the secondary market value of their tickets plummeting.

Fans who had prepaid for Kraken tickets in three, five and seven-year packages suddenly found similar single-game seats in their sections selling online for much less. And when they tried to resell their own seats — either because they couldn’t make all games or to subsidize their season ticket outlay — they often did so at a significant money loss.

That’s hardly a selling point for season ticket renewal. In fact, some Kraken fans even tried to escape their season ticket contracts early.

But the team had bought time to turn things around by requiring the minimum three-year commitments. And things began changing last season, with the Kraken jumping to 100 points and making the playoffs — coming within one victory of the Western Conference Final.

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