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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Like there's going to be a local ownership group willing to pay $600 million to buy the team and then put up another $500 million for an arena.  That's fantasy. The team will need a new building eventually because nobody is going to pay for the team and new arena to keep the team in Calgary. Maybe it won't happen under Nenshi's rule but it's going to happen and I sense the Flames owners will simply wait another four years. |
The new ownership does not have to build a new arena, the last two sales(Carolina and Phoenix) were not accompanied by a new arena purchases and nieither of those are particularly impressive setups. The one in Phoenix is in a very bad location and Carolina has never made money in a below average market.