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Need a ticket for tonight’s Game 7? Prepare to sell your limbs

Boston Bruins v Vancouver Canucks - Game Five

VANCOUVER, BC - JUNE 10: Vancouver Canucks fans hold signs that reads, “TRADED MY KIDS FOR THESE SEATS DON’T LET ME DOWN CANUCKS” prior to the start Game Five between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins in the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena on June 10, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Paying for Stanley Cup finals tickets is always going to be particularly expensive. Let’s face it, it’s the final series of the year and every game carries the weight of the world on it for the fans of the teams involved. Now take that feeling and ball it up and apply it to both teams for a winner-take-all Game 7. Sounds like the formula for the price of tickets to skyrocket doesn’t it?

In Vancouver, tickets are already hard to come by and are already really expensive. As CNBC’s Darren Rovell scoped out on Tuesday, it’s a special brand of situation for those looking to re-sell tickets on the secondary market as fans don’t want to give up their shot to see the Canucks potentially win their first Stanley Cup. Those tickets that are on websites to be bought are going for quite the hefty price.

Scoping out StubHub right now, if you’re looking for just one ticket to get inside Rogers Arena and you’re not picky about where exactly the ticket puts you in the building, it’ll cost you quite a bit.

As of this writing, buying one ticket will cost you $2,495, a price that will at least put you in the lower bowl behind the goal that will allow you to see how strong Roberto Luongo is or isn’t tonight for two periods.

If you’re looking to get any number of seats, the prices per seat go down a bit, but the total price you’ll pay still hurts. The cheapest pair of tickets you’ll get will put you in the upper level of Rogers Arena and run you $1,700 per ticket. A coll $3,400 gets you and a friend in to watch someone lift the Stanley Cup in Vancouver. That’s a lot of dough to drop especially when you’re not sure if you’ll be celebrating at the end of the night or end up being heartbroken depending on your allegiances.

One way or another, being able to be in attendance for a Stanley Cup finals game is incredible but if it means selling off personal possessions or family members it’s probably not the best move for your personal finances. That said, Vancouver’s been waiting for 40 years to see the Canucks lift the Stanley Cup and tonight they’ve got the chance to do that on home ice. For the city that saw Canada win the Olympic gold medal in 2010, this possibility is bit more personal no matter what the cost might be.