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Originally Posted by stone hands
the only way the flames leave calgary is if murray edwards has so much clout in the NHL that he can veto someone willing to buy the flames and keep them here
the only way murray edwards can veto keeping a team in a city he heavily invests in, and is by all accounts a charitable member of the community for the last 30 years is if he is such a petty, bitter man, that he would remove a pillar of the community out of spite because they won't gift him a new rink
if any of the above are true, i'd rather see the team leave than stay any day
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None of it will happen, despite what Manhattenboy has been saying. They're playing the playbook and citizens are smarter to it than they used to be.
If the Flames truly wanted a gift they should have been about 150x smarter and more prepared throughout the years. They could have had everything they wanted with a proposal ready to go before the '09 economy crash and they could have again had an excellent deal between 2011 and 2014.
Instead they just blundered along until new economic conditions and a smarter, more educated public said "go **** yourselves".
Now they're pouting publicly, while panicking behind closed doors. They'll be back.