{"id":908037,"date":"2026-09-24T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908037\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:12:10","slug":"more-than-1500-tickets-still-available-for-edmonton-oilers-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908037\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,500 tickets still available for Edmonton Oilers\u2019 home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">There are \u201cmore than 1,500 tickets available\u201d for the Oilers\u2019 home opener on Sept. 29 against the Canucks, not including resale tickets, according to Steven Sandor of the EDMONTON JOURNAL. Available tickets are \u201cevenly split between the upper and lower bowls\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/08\/oilers-extending-stay-at-rogers-place-as-part-of-10-year-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/08\/oilers-extending-stay-at-rogers-place-as-part-of-10-year-deal\/\">Rogers Place<\/a>, which lists its capacity at 18,500 for hockey. The pattern of unsold seats \u201ccontinues through most of October\u2019s home games,\u201d including an Oct. 22 visit from the Stanley-Cup champion Hurricanes and an Oct. 28 game against the Flames. The only October game Ticketmaster is \u201cshowing as a near-sellout\u201d is the Oct. 24 Saturday-night matchup against the Maple Leafs. The Oilers average attendance last year surpassed 18,300, and sellouts are \u201cconsidered the norm.\u201d Oilers Entertainment Group spokesperson Kevin Rapanos said that the team is \u201cnot overly concerned about those blue dots at this stage.\u201d Sandor noted the team is holding a select-a-seat event on Sept. 26 for prospective season-ticket buyers. He added a season ticket is \u201ca major purchase.\u201d The Oilers\u2019 ticket-selling site is \u201cnow offering 40-game packages (beginning with the Oct. 15 home game) with prices ranging from $3,850 per seat to almost $15,200 a seat\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/local-news\/plenty-of-seats-still-available-for-oilers-opener-october-home-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/local-news\/plenty-of-seats-still-available-for-oilers-opener-october-home-games\">EDMONTON JOURNAL, 9\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are \u201cmore than 1,500 tickets available\u201d for the Oilers\u2019 home opener on Sept. 29 against the Canucks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,5239,448,19384],"class_list":["post-908037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-ticketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}