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A decade ago to watch a Young Stars game, which featured the odd hotshot rookie but otherwise a basket of hard-skating never-weres, you could get in for $10. A quick check with the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator tells us that ticket should cost you $12.70 today.
Of course, a stop at the grocery store tells you that while inflation may not have actually surged the dollars in our bank account all that much, the people who are now pulling the levers on society have hiked their prices much, much higher.
It's all part of a pattern the last few seasons taken by the Canucks to charge their fans a premium for access, following a trend that has become common across much of North American sports -- it's about extracting the maximum from potential fans, and also focusing on the kind of fan that can afford to pay higher prices.