Sorry just to clarify - are you saying that you were able to find seats for this past Saturday's game for $160 on game day? And that they were $220 face value on let's say Friday?
I purchased at $220 (after fees face value) back during the on-sale in July. Several hundred tickets remained unsold, I checked frequently as I'm a ticket broker and also bought tickets to sell for the game. Not sure exactly when the face value dropped, but it was some time in the last week or so. I know all the prices they were charging back in July, and everything was marked down nearly 30% leading up to the game.
Face value tickets are available for nearly every Leaf game still, uppers and lowers. They also hold back 100 or so for every single game, on game day they get released and sit there often right until puck drop. They release them at a price the market will sustain, always lower than what they charged in July.
They are very good at this dynamic pricing, but some feel it's unfair to the customer.
The resale policy has impacted resale value a lot as well IMO. Used to be a lot easier to sell through places like StubHub
They've raised the ticket prices a lot over the last ten years, SRO by 300%, purples by 50%. Lowers always cost bank, but they've gone up a bit too. There's no more money to be made on the Maple Leafs.
Which as a broker/fan I'm fine with, whatever, HRR is good for the NHL and by extension the Leafs. I just know not to bother buying Leafs to sell anymore, and just buy my own seats on game day.
I mean, I only sold 5 of 6 of the cheapest tickets in the building at a profit... for a Saturday against Montreal. An unreal thought just a handful of years ago, even when the team was junk.