When the Vancouver Canucks sellout streak ended on a Saturday night game against the Tampa Bay Lightning despite the team’s relatively promising start to the 2014/15 season, it was assumed that the team would continue to see struggles to fill the barn on a night to night basis after the glory days of consecutive sellouts dating back to the days where Markus Naslund was electrifying the hometown crowd in the early 00’s. However it wasn’t assumed that high profile games would also be difficult to draw a full house, but according to the ticket sales on Thursday leading up to the Canucks game against the Montreal Canadiens there will be problems filling the Rogers Arena this season.

Tickets still remain for tonight’s game in bunches, meaning that the Canadiens fans were not enough to sell the tickets to tonight’s game as of this afternoon. Something that should be a concern for the franchise that ticket prices may potentially be too high for a team that is looking to rebuild its identity after the high times where the team was always expected to be figures in the Western Conference title race. Now after missing the playoffs it appears fans are no longer willing to shell out top dollar for even the all-Canadian matchups.

The sellout streak really is over. Tickets still available for Canadiens-Canucks game http://t.co/pDHUaKp1fu pic.twitter.com/cTUIcjChvo — The Vancouver Sun (@VancouverSun) October 30, 2014

Can’t even sell out the Habs. Wow #darkdays RT @CanucksTickets: Limited tickets still available for tonight’s game against @CanadiensMTL! — Taj (@taj1944) October 30, 2014

If Dale Weise can’t sellout your building then nothing can. — Taj (@taj1944) October 30, 2014

No word on if the Canucks game day ticket sales have increased over the past hour, but fans looking to catch Carey Price and PK Subban tonight can still grab an available ticket if they are willing to pay the Ticketmaster prices. If not there may be some good deals on StubHub as with empty seats the secondary market could drop even with the marquee matchup at the Rogers Arena this evening.