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Originally Posted by djsFlames
If the Flames didn't take the Stamps under its wing maybe we'd be looking at a new hockey arena going up in two or three years. The fieldhouse/stamps/olympics aspirations just furthered the timeline by who knows how many years.
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This is an interesting point. While the Stamps franchise may have value as an investment in itself, the added profit the Flames franchise has bought itself can't be more than something on the order of a few million bucks/year, if that. It's really a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall CSEC operation.
Is the Flames organization going to allow itself to lose out on (presumably) tens of millions in new-arena revenue while they hold out for the "mega-project" that includes their "little brother?" That doesn't seem like the wisest of decisions to me.