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Great seats still available for the Montreal Canadiens’ playoff games in Tampa

It's only a slight exaggeration to say that Montreal Canadiens fans who find themselves out of luck for the first two home games of the team's playoff series against the Tampa Lightning next week could fly down to Florida and buy a ticket to the game – for only a little more than what it might cost them for an evening at the Bell Centre.

Incredible as it might be to fathom for Canadian hockey fans, tickets remain for the games Wednesday and Friday at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, although sales have picked up the last two days, since the Lightning clinched home-ice advantage and the dates were confirmed.

Prices range from $40.75 to $370.05, even though the official blurb says the ticket prices start at $25. The blurb also says "limited tickets". But as you can see from the chart below, there are seats still available in practically every section in the arena.

For $370.05 each, you can get front-row seats – right in front of the face-off circles at the south end of the ice, where the Canadiens attack in the first and third periods.

Those types of seats are like gold at the Bell Centre.

How can you get there? Well, that's the rub. At this point, a flight will set you back $600-$700 Canadian. So it's for the more dedicated, and well-heeled, Habs fanatics only.

Better yet, snowbirds spending the winter in the usual Quebec haunts in and around Fort Lauderdale can take a detour to the west coast of Florida and catch a couple of games, on their way back up north.

Fill the place with rouge et blanc, and make the first two games of the series like two extra home games!