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Originally Posted by GGG
This is pretend deadline one.
The Flames plan was to win a public relations battle by Russiaing our elections and using organizations like Save Calgary to get a council more favourable to them. We'll see sometime today the reaction to Nenshis proposal who is winning that.
I think the flames miscalculated the average Calgarians appetite for tax subsidies for Arenas and as long as The cities proposal is reasonable people will back the city instead of Betman.
Their messaging was way off and King just sounds whiny and arrogant. If he just changed the messaging to we felt it best to step away from the table right now because no progress is being made and we need to focus and evaluate on how to maximize revenues in our current building. And then when asked if he will relocate. He should have said As long as the Flames aren't losing money every year we will stay. We will maxmoze every bit of income and cut costs where required. As time goes on that might mean not being a cap team but as along as Calgary supports the product on the ice we will be here.
You basically tie team success to a new building and commit to stay with a Salary structure that matches revenue. It would put public on the city to help.
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If they did this the mayor would just shrug it off as nothing. They needed to put pressure on him because they feel he's done nothing.
We'll see if this is true in a few minutes.