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Originally Posted by nik-
He's an owner mouthpiece on this issue.
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Actually its funny because he's flipped his tone. It wasn't that long ago that he was reassuring people that the Flames weren't leaving, now they are.
I really do believe that the Flames will look at outside of the city solutions, they'd be foolish not to, that's business. Whether they find it or not is another matter. But they need to look, its all about how they negotiate.
Whether we like it or not the relationship between the Flames and Calgary at the highest level is broken, it just is, both sides feel disrespected, and I would assume that the Flames feel that Nenshi expects them to crawl back to him on his terms, and that's not likely to happen.
I would expect that sometime after the season, the Flames owners will either put up a stake in the club for sale, possibly a majority stake. Or attempt to sell it outright and leave it open to bidders in Calgary and out of Calgary, and have no conditions attached about keeping the team in Calgary.
My expectation is that the Flames will move in the next 5 years.