Last week I wrote about how the Chicago Blackhawks hosted their earliest game I could ever remember. This week the Blackhawks hosted their most important regular season game I could remember. This was a game between the top teams in each conference and NBC was televising the contest making it the second straight Sunday the Blackhawks would play an 11:30 am game. Besides this fact, I was hoping to watch Alex Ovechkin, arguably the best player in the NHL. The last time I saw Ovechkin in person was on March 19, 2008 \u2013 also at the United Center.<\/p>\n
Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span> At 9 am, StubHub had upper deck tickets listed for $145 each and SRO for $50. I considered buying the SRO, but knew that StubHub fees would make the ticket $70. I could not justify buying a SRO ticket for nearly three times face value.<\/p>\n At 10 am, StubHub upper deck seats had dropped to $115 each and the SRO was gone. I checked craigslist.org and there was a listing for a single ticket for $70. I called the guy but the ticket had sold. At this point I realized my price point was around $70 and that negotiating with any scalpers would only drive that price higher.<\/p>\n I arrived at the United Center and as I walked by Gate 2 some Capitals fans had an extra ticket available. I offered them $50 for the ticket (too high for the first offer) and they countered with $70 (face value). I agreed since that was my price point before I arrived at the arena.<\/p>\n The only problem with finding a reasonably priced ticket early was that I could not determine whether that was a good price. Even after buying the ticket I should have walked around to see what other tickets were available. Instead I entered the arena immediately.<\/p>\n Washington Capitals at Chicago Blackhawks<\/span> Four minutes later the Blackhawks took a 2-0 lead and with Ovechkin being out should have put the game out of reach. However, even though the Blackhawks added a goal in the second period to take a 3-0 lead, the Capitals stormed back scoring three goals in the third period within just over two minutes to tie the game at three goals apiece.<\/p>\n The game eventually went into overtime in which the Capitals\u2019 Nicklas Backstrom scored the game winning goal with 1:50 left \u2013 the Blackhawks second straight overtime game at home.<\/p>\n One notable was that Vince Vaughn was at the game. I have seen him a few times now at the United Center this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I wrote about how the Chicago Blackhawks hosted their earliest game I could ever remember. This week the Blackhawks hosted their most important regular season game I could remember. This was a game between the top teams in each conference and NBC was televising the contest making it the second straight Sunday the Blackhawks would play an 11:30 am game. Besides this fact, I was hoping to watch Alex Ovechkin, arguably the best player in the NHL. The last time I saw Ovechkin in person was on March …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,46,147,235],"tags":[337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLast Sunday I showed up at the United Center early, walked all the way to Billy Goat Tavern and back and ended up buying a ticket for face value along Madison St. just outside of Gate 3. Today I figured I would stay around the United Center and find a ticket from a fan rather than negotiate with ticket scalpers. The main reason I made this decision was because I did research on StubHub and Craigslist.org before the game.<\/p>\n
\nOvechkin was kicked out of the game early as he slammed Brian Campbell into the boards \u2013 his third game misconduct of the season. The ejection does not guarantee Ovechkin a suspension since his last boarding game misconduct occurred over 41 games ago. A weird rule I must admit.<\/p>\n