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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This is where it gets tricky (and I don't pretend to have the answers). But I think it is important to keep the hockey team (a for-profit business) separate from the arena (which the for-profit business needs, but also has other uses and benefits for the community).
The 64,000 question of course, is how much benefit is there for the community? And also, how much subsidy is tolerable, in order to house the for-profit business?
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Agreed. But hard to separate the two when the Flames say that without a new arena, they can't stay here. I mean if it weren't for that threat, implied or otherwise, I don't believe this would be a conversation would it?
As you say, it's complex. No doubt it would be easier to figure out how much subsidy is tolerable if the Flames were transparent with their finances. Possibly they are behind closed doors.