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Originally Posted by Calgary '89
You want history? The Flames were the first pro sports franchise to ever move to Canada from the US. It happened because Calgary was a small city becoming an economic powerhouse and had the risk takers to pull it off. Oil or no oil, that's something to be proud of and a much better story than pioneers, horses, cowboys and saloons.
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Well it has only happened twice in NHL history (a franchise moving from the US to Canada) so I am not sure how big of an accomplishment that actually was.
But I totally support a risk taker arena, built entirely from private money to salute our pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps history.