All he's saying is that teams move all the time, people shouldn't treat that as a completely empty threat because it's not.
In 2008 the Seattle Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City, a significant drop off in market quality but it didn't matter because the group that bought the sonics was from Oklahoma City and they didn't care.
There are lots of markets in the US that have no hesitations to use public money on stadiums to try and put themselves on the map. Recently it hasn't even been cities but wealthy suburbs that have built sweetheart stadiums. Glendale, Santa Clara, a suburb in Atlanta convinced the Braves to move there from a stadium that wasn't even 20 years old in Turner Field. If the Flames were to move I think the most likely avenue would be the ownership group selling to someone from the US who has one of these deals in place. It's definitely not likely but it's also not the flaccid threat a lot of you seem to think it is.
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