[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Meanwhile, the province appeared to be budging slightly, after maintaining for some time that provincial money would not go directly towards the downtown arena.

“We’ve talked about doing a sports-select pool or something along those lines,” Provincial Finance Minister Doug Horner said. “That would allow every municipality to have a piece of that.”

Horner said if that happened, the money would still come from the Municipal Sustainability Initiative or MSI, the same mechanism the province uses to give cash to cities – it’s not clear how much money would be generated for Edmonton.

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