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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
People don't over react to this comment...King King isn't the most well spoken man in the world and its not unreasonable to state the team needs a new arena or else there is no point to stay.
We have the oldest arena in the league and a new arena will do wonders for the economy and overall vibrancy of the city. Why would you stay in a city that had such short sighted vision?
Yes the economy has been in the crapper but all that sounds like to me is an opportunity to build this thing when it might not cost as much because contractors will make more reasonable bids in order to win the work.
Building a new area will allow more musical artists to come here too. I heard a stat that Garth Brooks concert brought in like $44 million dollars into the Edmonton economy.
This deal will get done and the Flames, in reality, are in no threat of leaving. All the guy is saying is the Flames will be forced to leave if no arena is built.
Ken Kings comment means nothing so there is no need to get worked up about it.
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Checked all the bullet points.
- Economy
- "Forced" to leave
- Vibrancy
- Vision