[CaptainCrunch]

The way I look at it

If the city is going to provide the land and the cleanup or the province is going to provide the cleanup that's fine. If the field house and stadium is going to cost 900 million denaros then that's fine too, by my understanding the city was looking at spending $200 million on a necessary field house.

the owners should be able to find a way to come up with at least $500 million dollars whether through financing or opening up their ownership group for additional funds.

If there's a combination of provincial, federal and municiple funds that can be made up through a long term loan on a ticket tax that can be paid back over 20 or 30 or 50 years, this can be done.

If we get 688000 tickets per year and do a 50 year ticket tax which is 34440000 tickets, your looking at about $6 bucks per ticket. You could even add an additional $1.00 to that for the city as a good faith profit.

The big hedge mark is, how much are the owners willing to spend of their own money, and how much would another city be willing to sweeten the pot for a move.

Now I honestly doubt that Bettman would allow a move of a Canadian Franchise at this point, and one that is making a profit, though with the dollar drop that could change in a hurry.

Now what I didn't add to my calculations would be Stampeder tickets.