Is the price increase justified? Well of course. According to MLSE President Richard Peddie:
"Show me businesses that have not passed on costs of the last three, four years," said Peddie. "That's not being greedy. I think in real dollars that dollar today is still worth less in real buying terms to us than it was four years ago because we're not keeping up with inflation. I think our behaviour in the last couple of years has not been greedy at all."
Well at least he didn't suggest that the tickets were a great entertainment value. I guess he may have seen the ESPN Fan Satisfaction Ranking that I had posted earlier on the affordability of Leaf tickets.