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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
What did the owner do wrong in your mind?
You need a good venue partner and the Oilers pretty much did everything they could to make it fail. Including telling him that he couldn't use the phrase "Battle of Alberta".
The Oilers treated him like trash like the joke of an organization, from top to bottom, that they are.
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Its foolish to lay the blame on the Oilers or the OEG. Urban was very hard to deal with and had been planning to move to Saskatoon for 2 years unless he got an absolute sweetheart deal to play in the new stadium.
The way he negotiated with the City for access to Northlands and use of Rexall left him with very few friends in Edmonton.
Publicly calling out the Mayor of Edmonton because he turned down an invitation to one of the play offs games - an invitation extended teh day of the game - claiming no one in the city supported the team.
Spending little money on marketing and ploys to get fans in the gate etc etc
Not to mention Urban points the finger at the City and Mayor - not the OEG for the reason of the move.