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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Apples to oranges. The NHL wants to keep the Coyotes in that US TV market. The Flames could leave Calgary and it would not at all change the Canadian TV market and if anything they could sit on Calgary as the next place they could use as a threat of relocation for franchises. Gary has always been tight with Flames ownership and there's no way he would stand in their way and Seattle is a market the NHL has always been interested in and what better owners than stable ones the Flames to assume that market.
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You really think having a team in Phoenix in any way effects what the NHL gets on a TV deal? Its a very long term play there. But I'd be shocked if NBC or NBCSN has shown more than one Coyotes game/year in years (and that one game may be part of the deal since they show every American team at least once).
If that was really a big deal, they'd have never let Atlanta leave (bigger TV market) and they'd be going like mad to get a team in Houston (bigger TV market).