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Originally Posted by Frequitude
It most definitely is a benefit of a new arena. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. It's why everyone would give a non-zero amount of money to a new arena. If they say otherwise to that also, they are again lying.
Is it worth ~$850M* in public funding though? Not in my book. Somewhere between $1 and $850M*, yup. And I can tell you which one I land closer to.
*$850M is based on the $1.3B incremental cost from the Flames latest report (which holds together in my book) less the $450M the Flames are putting in (I believe the ticket tax should count as Flames contribution).
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I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just saying its friggin' ridiculous to argue that we aren't losing events, because we are or to discredit that by saying So and So playing Edmonton sucks anyways.