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Originally Posted by Jer Bu
The Flames are most certainly a for-profit enterprise. If they were not, then you would see the Flames still spending to the cap in order to ice a better team instead pocketing $10-$15 million of savings last year and likely this year. if they were a non profit, then season ticket costs wouldn't have risen AGAIN, for a product that will likely be worse.
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You are way off base with this paragraph. If Treliving wanted to spend $15 million on a couple of players right now the owners wouldn't stop it. The tickets go up because the market can support it. The cap will most likely keep increasing year over year. They need the ticket revenue to do the same or risk becoming a have-not franchise again (remember the 90's? - boy were they fun).
Any money they make on the Flames is peanuts compared to their business ventures.