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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
As they should as these are still largely the same men that have owned the team for over 3 decades unlike Edmonton where a rich guy bought the team as a toy hasn't done anything for the community except run the team into the ground and even pretended to entertain Seattle as a thinly veiled threat. If anything it would be a little insulting to the Flames ownership group to get the cold shoulder given what the province and city of Edmonton gave the clown up north.
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I'm pretty sure, but I believe there was no direct money from the province for Rogers Place in Edmonton. They provided some funding to a few projects like the new LRT station near the new arena, but no money was made available directly related to the arena itself.