Jets-Wild tickets ‘sold out’ in Saint Paul

Posted: 4:28 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2018

Winnipeg Jets fans who couldn't get their hands on tickets for home games in the first round of the NHL playoffs are likely out of luck for games in Minnesota, too.

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Winnipeg Jets fans who couldn't get their hands on tickets for home games in the first round of the NHL playoffs are likely out of luck for games in Minnesota, too.

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Winnipeg Jets fans who couldn’t get their hands on tickets for home games in the first round of the NHL playoffs are likely out of luck for games in Minnesota, too.

“As soon as (the tickets) were offered, they were sold out, basically,” Mitch Helgerson, senior vice-president of marketing and ticket sales for the Minnesota Wild, said Wednesday.

Game 1 of the best-of-seven series between the Wild and Jets was Wednesday night at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg. Game 2 is set for Friday, before the series heads to the Xcel Energy Center for Games 3 and 4 (Sunday and Tuesday, respectively).

Helgerson said he doesn’t know how many — if any — Manitobans were able to get tickets for the games in Saint Paul. However, he said he has seen Jets fans at “almost every” Wild-Jets game at Xcel since the NHL returned to Winnipeg in 2011.

A note for those willing to make the trip south: unlike Winnipeg and its “whiteout” gathering on Donald Street, Saint Paul will not be shutting down any roads for a team-sanctioned, outdoor viewing party on game days.

The Wild finished 2017-18 with the franchise’s third-highest regular-season point total (101) and made the playoffs for the sixth season in a row. The Jets, meanwhile, piled up a franchise-best 114 points — also topping any total achieved by the city’s first NHL franchise and its WHA predecessor (1972-96), and the club’s run as the Atlanta Thrashers (1999-2011).