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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
I actually think the City's response is much more grounded, they come across to me as
"you should pay for most of it because Seattle, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, and Vegas paid for theirs privately"
If the Flames are picking the Oilers as their hill to die on, then they can die.
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Nope. The Province kicked in VLT money to help True North pay down its debt. The city and the feds also kicked in money.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...ntre-1.1026604
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...h-public-funds
Manitoba also subsidizes the Jets' operations:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...ions-1.4423605
If you want to suggest that most arenas are privately built, that just isn't true. Recently, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, NJ, Glendale, Minnie, Columbus, - in fact, the vast majority of NHL arenas were. See also Houston and Quebec, in the hopes of getting a team.