Quote:
Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Has a more lucrative location come up for availability before? Exactly. There isn't precedence to speak of. Yet, a less viable comparable just happened a few short years ago.
Just like it was mentioned previous, the Oilers comparable -- Katz had no desire to move, and was simply disrupting the market conversation, with his communication strategy.
Winnipeg, & Quebec City are not Calgary in terms of profitability. Less seats, with considerably less corporate support.
|
Second team in Toronto, Hamilton, Other golden horse shoe locations. These never get off the ground.
What are you talking about in Quebec City? They have a brand new 18,500 seat stadium that has been waiting for a tenant since they put the shovels in the ground. They would easily have corporate support, and on top of that, the Quebec City franchise would get a level of Provincial Government support that doesn't exist in Alberta and most teams would be envious of.
The NHL thinks so little of more NHL teams in Canada that they didn't even consider Quebec City for expansion when Quebec would have handed them a blank cheque. Not sure how people here think that they'd be willing to move a franchise to Calgary when they don't have a rink, the dollar hovering around 70 cents with no signs of receovery, and the local economy is the toilet and is based even in good times on a form of energy that world is trying to shift away from.
This team isn't going to relocate, but we'd be screwed if they ever did.