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Originally Posted by Cole436
This is idiotic. The Flames will be losing a significant amount of money moving to Seattle. They'll have to pay a relocation fee which will be significantly more than 100 million dollars,
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That's yet to be determined. Nobody has paid a relocation fee that large before.
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they will have to significantly lower ticket prices,
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Also TBD. The Seattle market is one of the most affluent in the U.S., and hockey has more than 100 years of history there.
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their attendance will be significantly lower over time (just like almost every American city)
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Frankly, the Flames actually
want lower attendance. They'd love to be in a building that didn't have 2,000 cheap nosebleeds to tempt fans away from the expensive seats in the main bowl. Every proposal I've heard of for a new arena has a smaller seating capacity than the Saddledome.
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they will take a massive hit in merchandise revenue
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All merchandise revenue is shared equally by every NHL franchise, except for items sold at a team's own retail outlets.
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and they'll lose a significant amount of money from their TV deal with Rogers.
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The Rogers deal is national, and like merchandise, is shared equally by every franchise. The local deal with Rogers would be replaced by a local deal in a much larger media market, and it's difficult to say with any certainty how much they would lose in the transition.
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The amount of money they would lose over a 5 year period would probably pay for the ####ing calgaryNEXT deal.
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This is just silly. Not even the Coyotes are losing $200 million a year.