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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
disagree. I would opine that for hockey at least you can get 10 more years out of the saddledome. wouldn't be able to maximize your profit, but it would be an acceptable hockey venue for that long.
flames are going nowhere. after seattle gets their team, what's left in the west? Houston?
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That's pretty much the timeline I'm thinking is going to play out. Another decade of the province being economically shut out by the rest of the country by indifferent/hostile neighboring governments coupled with the renewal of national TV deals at the tail end of that timeframe sets up the pieces to facilitate a move to Houston - or any other moderately-sized city that makes itself available within the span of ten years. Houston became a relocation candidate literally overnight and caught everybody by surprise in becoming so, so why couldn't Portland or KC or any other similarly-sized city in the west do the same in that frame of time? There's plenty of relocation options that could present themselves.