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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
I still don't see why the other teams voted for this. I suppose its a matter of if they vote against the Flames now, the Flames may vote against them later. I'd really love to know the actual vote, and who was excluded.
I mean, if you accept all the arguments for Abbotsford being made in this thread, all it means is that its not a bad place to play for the AHL Flames. None of them, except for some older references to "expanding the market," help any other team but the Flames. It just seems easier to vote no and stick with the status quo, if you don't have as much to gain as the Flames do.
That said, if the AHL expands to the west coast, which I agree they probably will, then everything mostly works out.
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Your first paragraph explains your second. If one organization starts interfering with another, the entire partnership fails. As it is, the greatest harm to the existing teams is financial, and the Abbotsford group is remedying that. So, the question becomes whether a cross-continent flight once or twice a year is enough to interfere with another team's plans? Evidently, the answer is no.