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Originally Posted by Bingo
...So in a sense they may have to get this or the building concept is dead.
But to suggest there is another market out there that would be better is foolish. The only way they move is if someone gifts them an arena and even at that they'd better have good data to make sure they get positive operating income from a non traditional market.
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Yeah, I would tend to agree. But I think that Calgary and the Flames might be one of the first dominoes in a market correction for all of NA professional sports. The Edmonton deal was the result of a perfect storm of factors that simply WILL NOT be repeated in Calgary. Unlike in Calgary, the threat to move the Oilers out of Edmonton was a lot more credible, and as mentioned unlike in Edmonton the appetite for downtown development in Calgary is no where nearly as acute.
The Flames appear to me to be stuck—they aren't getting the free money that they want, but they are also not practically able to relocate to a new market.