Tickets to see the Carolina Hurricanes play in the Stanley Cup Final sold out almost as soon as they went on sale Saturday afternoon.

Individual game tickets for the team’s home games at the Lenovo Center went on sale to the general public on Saturday at 3 p.m., and they sold out in hours.

Now only resale tickets are available, and Ticketmaster is showing the lowest cost options at around $1,000.

One woman told WRAL she waited in line behind more than 38,000 people. Once she finally go into the ticket viewing, the prices were almost unbelievable.

“In the queue I was 38,152 yesterday when I tried to get tickets,
did finally get in and the resale was 1400 dollars. So unfortunately we’re
gonna go to the watch party and cheer on the Hurricanes hopefully for a
victory,” Doreen Graham, a long-time Raleigh resident, said.

WRAL News reached out to the State Attorney General’s Office with the following questions:

• Has the Attorney General’s Office received any complaints about the ticket buying process?
• Are theying currently looking to any of those complaints?

As of Sunday night, the Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond for comment.

Ticketmaster, Hurricanes say proper protocols were followed in ticket purchases

WRAL reached out to TicketMaster on how ticket prices are set, if bots were detected during the Canes’ sale and what the process behind “verified resale” looks like.

The massive ticket marketplace company deferred us back to the Carolina Hurricanes’ team management regarding ticket prices, and provided the following response:

“The verified resale tickets you see on our site are listed and priced by individuals. We authenticate every listing on our site so fans know they’re getting a real ticket.  Other resale sites often allow speculative listings where sellers don’t actually possess the tickets they’re selling. We believe this practice should be banned because it is fundamentally misleading to consumers. 

Please find background information about our anti-bot protections below: 

Bots: We’re blocking 20B bots a month – that’s up 20x since 2022. 

Fake Accounts: 1.6B fake account creation attempts blocked in 2025. 

Shutting Down Suspicious Accounts: 2.5M accounts frozen in the last 6 months.

Cancelled Orders: Tens of thousands of tickets have been cancelled already this year for violating our terms of use. “

Carolina Hurricanes CEO Brian Fork told WRAL on Sunday the team sets a limit of four tickets per purchaser for each game, “and diligently monitor the sales process to ensure that tickets are securely purchased by fans.”

The teams will then travel to Las Vegas, where the Golden Knights will have home ice for Games 3 and 4 of the series. If the series continues after those first four games, the series could run until a Game 7 at Lenovo Center on Wednesday, June 17.

WRAL’s 5 On Your Side has an early look at what you should know if you’re considering making the trip to Vegas as the Canes battle the Vegas Golden Knights for the Stanley Cup. For those not making a trip, the Hurricanes announced on Sunday that it would host watch parties at Lenovo Center for the team’s road games during the series.

The Hurricanes earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference with a record of 53-22-7 (113 points). The Golden Knights earned the second seed in the West, capturing the Pacific Division title with a record of 39-26-17 (95 points). Carolina swept the Ottawa Senators in the first round and the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round, before defeating the Montreal Canadiens in five games to capture the Eastern Conference Championship.