Can’t see them here? Go to SoCal

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This article was published 14/04/2015 (3835 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

NOBODY ever said it was cheap to be a Winnipeg Jets fan.

If you’re not able to score any tickets to the first NHL playoff games in this city in 19 years — and with fewer than 1,000 going on sale at 10 a.m. today for each of games three and four, the odds are against you — don’t despair.

There are more ducats available to see the Jets play the Anaheim Ducks — in Southern California.

There are fewer than 200 tickets remaining for each of the first two games of the best-of-seven series at the Honda Center, set for Thursday and Saturday. They range in price from US$36 to US$421, according to the Ducks.

(Individual game tickets for game three next Monday and game four next Wednesday in Winnipeg are priced between $107.75 and $340)

Then there’s the small matter of getting to SoCal. Lori Neufeld, a travel agent at Bonaventure Travel, said a return flight to John Wayne Airport in Anaheim, which is about 20 minutes from the rink, will set you back about $1,050 if you leave Thursday morning and return the next day.

If you fly into LAX instead, that same trip will cost you about $700, but you’ll also have to fork over nearly US$200 in cab fares to get to the game and back.

If you’d prefer to take in both games, flying into John Wayne will cost about $1,600 while the LAX option is just $650, plus the cab fare.

“They’d really have to be dedicated Jets fans and some people are,” Neufeld said.

Allegiant Air’s flights from Fargo to Los Angeles don’t start until June.

geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca