Jordan Jullian set an alarm and waited in the queue for 30 minutes before tickets went on sale Monday morning.
She was one minute in when they were gone.
"I was actually in shock," she told Global News. "I refreshed it a few times. I'm like, no way, this is like the Era's Tour all over again."
The Calgary Flames' final regular-season game at the Scotiabank Saddledome sold out within minutes.
The game
Saturday, April 10, 2027, 8 p.m., against the Vancouver Canucks.
Unless the Flames make the playoffs, that's the last game ever played at the Saddledome. If they qualify, the building gets a few more nights.
There's a symmetry to it. The Flames open the season at home against Vancouver on September 22, so the same opponent bookends the final year.
Ticketmaster now shows April 10 as sold out. Resale listings are already live on StubHub and Vivid Seats.
The building
The Scotiabank Saddledome opened on October 15, 1983.
It seats more than 19,000 and hosts around 150 events a year. It hosted figure skating and hockey during the 1988 Winter Olympics, and the saddle-shaped roof has been on Calgary postcards ever since.
Beyond the Flames, it's home to the Hitmen, the Roughnecks and the Wranglers, all of whom move to Scotia Place too.
44 years of things that happened there
The finale is selling on memory, so it's worth naming what people are actually buying a ticket to say goodbye to.
The 1989 Stanley Cup, still the only one the Flames have won, though they clinched it in Montreal. The 2004 run, when the Red Mile filled every night and Calgary lost Game 7 at home. Two more Cup finals' worth of noise in a building acoustically designed to hold it.
The 2013 flood, when the Bow rose into the lower bowl up to roughly the eighth row and destroyed the dressing rooms, the ice plant and everything stored below street level.
Every touring act that came through Calgary for four decades, because for most of that time the Saddledome was the only room in the city big enough.
Where they're going
Scotia Place opens for the 2027-28 season, at 12 Avenue and Olympic Way S.E., right beside the Saddledome.
The $1.2-billion facility is expected to seat 18,400 for hockey and up to 20,000 for concerts.
That's fewer hockey seats than the Saddledome has, which is worth sitting with if you're wondering whether next season's ticket scramble gets easier. It doesn't.
We've been tracking construction: Scotia Place Construction Update: Calgary's New Flames Arena Hits the Ice Level, 13 Months Away From Opening
If you missed out
The resale market is where this goes now. Listings for April 10 are already up. Prices on a game like this typically climb as the date approaches rather than softening, because there's no next time.
Watch the Flames' own ticket exchange, where season seat holders resell. It's often overlooked and prices tend to sit closer to face value.
Consider the other games. There are dozens of home dates left at the Saddledome before April 10, most of them available at ordinary prices. If the point is being in the building one more time, a Tuesday in January costs a fraction of the finale.
Turn on all-in pricing before comparing anything, or you're comparing a number with fees against one without.
And don't buy from a stranger on Facebook. E-transfers for screenshots is the oldest scam in this market and it runs hard on games like this.
Calgary is rebuilding all of it at once
The Saddledome isn't the only venue changing hands.
Scotia Place opens in fall 2027. The Werklund Centre, formerly Arts Commons, completes its expansion in the 2028-29 season alongside a rebuilt Olympic Plaza. And the City is spending $875,000 studying what replaces McMahon Stadium, which is 66 years old and hosting the Grey Cup in November.
Four major venue projects, in various stages, in a city of 1.6 million.
The Saddledome's last game is the first of those transitions to actually land on a calendar.
What happens to the Saddledome
Demolition, after the Flames leave, with the province covering the cost.
No date has been announced.
Sources
Ticketmaster
Calgary Flames 2026-27 schedule
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