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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Owners will want to get paid to let a team leave a good market for a potential expansion market. They got $500m for Vegas.
Seattle builds an arena - they get an expansion team and the owners get $500m. Why let Calgary move for $200m and then have no city you want to expand to (assuming they still don't want Quebec and they aren't going to expand to Calgary without a new arena).
Think of it this way - are the Panthers/Hurricanes etc owners going to vote to let a money making team move to a big market while they are stuck scraping by.
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I understand they will want to be paid, but I do not see a relocation fee anywhere near that price range. Similar to the comparison to the Edmonton rink deal, sure CSES wants a similar deal, doesn't mean they have the leverage to get it. Good hockey markets backed waaay off when the expansion fee was set at $500M. If the Flames are worth $410M (I think that was reported earlier in the thread), the absolute max relocation fee would be $90M and I don't think they could extract that.
Edit: I am assuming the locals sell the team first.
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From HFBoard oiler fan, in analyzing MacT's management:
O.K. there has been a lot of talk on whether or not MacTavish has actually done a good job for us, most fans on this board are very basic in their analysis and I feel would change their opinion entirely if the team was successful.
Last edited by Fighting Banana Slug; 09-13-2017 at 03:21 PM.
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