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Originally Posted by Loyal and True
I agree with you on this part. But...
If they don't, the owners could easily sell the team for over $500MM. Purchaser will also pay relocation fee and NHL owners will divide that up. The team name will change to fit whatever the new owner wants for his city. Harvey the Hound will relocate too. The citizens of Calgary are sad. They don't want to cheer for the Oilers.
At the next NHL BOG meeting in Boca Raton, expansion remains on the table after the relocation. The most attractive market for expansion at that point could very well be... Calgary! If only they had a new building...
After a short few years, a new billionaire and a new mayor propose the fantastic partnership to bring an NHL team back to Calgary. The billionaire will cough up hundreds of millions for the big NHL expansion fee. The city will provide hundreds of millions for a new downtown arena because... well... the old one is 45 years old and needs to be replaced anyway. The billionaire will even throw in $150 million towards the arena. What a great billionaire!
The citizens are overjoyed, and they have a contest to choose a new name and logo. The winning entry is... the Flames! The new mascot is... Scorch!!!
What a great city! What a great mayor!
Years later...The billionaire will continue making millions off his billions, and the new team will probably make enough money (eventually) to justify the whole expansion fee, but regardless the billionaire will be long remembered for restoring civic pride... Thanks Billionaire!
The new mayor has an unfortunate situation related to inappropriate behaviour with a twenty something intern that occurred in a Cowboys Stampede Tent over thirty four years ago. The mayor resigns, but she will always be remembered as the mayor who brought the Flames back to Calgary! Thanks Mayor!
Unfortunately the team has little success on the ice. Ever since Vegas won the cup in its first season, the NHL decided that expansion rules should be much more restrictive. The team manages a pathetic .350 winning percentage. Worse than every team in the league except Edmonton.
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This reads like Captain Crunch fan fiction from the Star Wars thread.