The Washington Capitals begin their preseason next week, but it’s the very end of the schedule, in April, that some fans are already eyeing. In what is likely the final season for Alex Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time goal scorer , some resale prices for the last regular-season game at Capital One Arena are currently almost eight times higher than for other games. In at least one case we saw, the markup was even more than that: One seller was asking $2,000 more than usual for an upper concourse seat that would typically cost no more than $50 resale.

At press time, resale tickets on Ticketmaster for the April 12 game against the Penguins ranged from $375.48 in section 429 of the upper concourse to $2,101.68 in section 405, also in the upper concourse. A check of an earlier October 14 game ag

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