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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
No I don't.
Unless the Flames are going to buy that building they won't see those revenues.
The Flames are a top 10 revenue team in one of the worst buildings in the league. There's basically no scenario that sees them make more money in the next 10-15 years than being in Calgary, even if it means playing in the dome.
Move the Calgary Flames to any other city without a team in North America right now and they make less money than they do currently. The only place where that's really debatable is Quebec City and there is no freakin' way the NHL allows a team to move from one Canadian City to another instead of granting that canadian city a new franchise or relocating a struggling american one.
THAT is what is so dishonest about all of this. Sure, let them move if they want to move, sell if they want to sell, but don't try to shine up my own turds and tell me it's for economic reasons.
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Revenues are only half the equation, and not the real number of interest. Profit is what matters. If the Flames make 20% less revenues, and have similar or lesser costs, they turn an extra 5-10% profit, just on exchange alone. Revenue is only half the story when you're talking about seeing your expenditures drop by a substantial amount as well. Sharing a building with a basketball team as a secondary tenant is going to drop costs dramatically and increase profitability.