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Originally Posted by Bingo
Well first off all you are fully able to decide what's telling for yourself.
For me the Flames have gone from a top 6 revenue team that pays every year to a team that is paid by their peers to be a bottom half team.
Hard to question books when their peers are cutting cheques, and dropping into the bottom 15 given their attendance and the market they play in suggests there could be a problem.
Is the problem the building? Clearly the exchange rate is a bunch of it, but an old building with the exchange rate seems to have moved them from elite market to "average" or just below.
That's telling to me.
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Why do they have to be in the top 1/3 of the league in revenue every year? During one of Calgary's worst economic downturns of our lifetime when the Canadian dollar is at a low, I'm not surprised they've slipped out of the top 1/3. Isn't the the whole point of revenue sharing, to balance out the ebbs and flows of markets? It also doesn't mean they're not profitable.
If things are so bad, why won't they open their books to the city?