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Originally Posted by Passe La Puck
So the Jubilee is inadequate but an NHL arena is, for what purpose exactly? For a hockey team it's pretty obvious but for everything else?
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Are you Seriously saying that you don't think Calgary would not need some sort of civic centre just because they don't have a hockey team? Any city of our size needs a venue to hold 17-20,000 people. Our rink has about a 5 year shelf life left, ten if we are lucky.
The Flames not being here would not chance the requirment for some sort of new venue at all. What it changes is we are now on the hook for 100% of the cost and the cost of operations and overhead.