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Originally Posted by Ducay
CAN spend to the cap, which has nothing to do with profitability at that level. They might be taking lower returns short term to ice a competitive team in order to build following and desire for the new arena (spitballing) even if the revenues don't support it in the Dome.
Lets say they determine no arena will happen, they could then lower their spending to well below the cap to ice a team that they can afford long term within their budget.
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Per Forbes they are the 10th most profitable team and are fan base though loyal is more fickle than Edmonton. So yes they CAN do that. We have no evidence that they will do that. And we have no evidence that not spending to the cap would generate the team more profit.