There is so much crap being spewed right now. King and Bettman lead the week off saying that a new arena would be incredibly lucrative and we would never be able to compete with Edmonton on the ice without one, dubiously linking revenue and on ice performance
. After Nenshi shares the city proposals and that the property tax would be around $5mil/year, King states that between property tax and the ticket tax the flames would be paying for 120% of the project and that the flames would be better off staying in the dome. Somehow, all this extra money from this incredibly lucrative arena Bettman was talking about cannot afford a property tax. And looking at what they pay for the likes of Troy Brouwer, $5mil/year is a drop in the bucket for CSEC, so why is this property tax such a disastrous cost?
There's a lot of lies going around, and I suspect most of it is King. Whenever someone asks for an explanation or challenges him on something, he likes to use the phrase "our interpretation", something someone does when caught cheating at a board game and the rulebook gets taken out.
This week has been a black mark on the franchise.