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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sure commit to building an arena and you might get on the list.
Otherwise, your not on a relocation list.
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It'll never get to that point. Rogers effectively guaranteed the security of the Canadian teams when they ponied up $5.2 billion over twelve years for the Canadian TV rights.
You don't have to go back very far, just to last year, to see just how devastating it is for Rogers' business model when no Canadian teams were in the playoffs. So we're to believe Sportsnet is going to sit idly by and allow one of its Canadian markets (which has sold out every game for thirteen years) to move to Houston or KC or Seattle?
No, the only way the Flames move is if they move within Canada. These these owners going to put up with Quebec politics and taxes? They can't deal with Nenshi.
Are we to believe they'd willingly stick themselves in a market where Clay Riddell has to explain to the press why he doesn't speak French?
No. The Flames are here to stay. This isn't the NFL.