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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I have to say I don't appreciate the way our ownership group is being lumped in along side Darryl Katz. We're talking about a group of people who have been here and owned this team for a very long time, and who have remained dedicated to keeping the Flames here in Calgary the entire time. They lost a ton of money along the way, and yes they had "season ticket drives" in the lean years, and there was talk of not being able to keep the team with the "current economics" of that time... but these guys are not, and and should never be compared with the likes of Darryl Katz.
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And yet when it comes down to getting taxpayers to put up hundreds of millions of dollars to fund a new arena I guarantee they'll act the same way. The Flames owners may be better overall owners, but when that kind of money is on the line (even though they don't need it - Katz doesnt either), it's hard for them not to.
The onus is on government to be smart enough to look into independent economic research and not the privately funded, biased "research" the owners spread around every time this issue comes up in a new city.