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Originally Posted by dissentowner
The Flames are not moving, this is business negotiation tactics. It amazes me how many jackels are coming out gleefully predicting a move or even hoping for one. You call yourselves Flames fans? F off, you have no idea how much the Flames mean to Calgary or how damn lucky the city is to have an NHL team. For the life of me I don't understand why someone would waste their time on a hockey team message board when they clearly don't give two craps about the franchise. It really pisses me off when I read posters hoping the team moves or that they don't care. Wtf are you doing here then?
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Obviously I'm a Flames fan but at the same time I don't want the city funding half of it and I understand they can make a #### ton more money if they sell/move.
Building an arena for an NHL team makes zero sense from a business standpoint. They make like 20M a year. Their profits would hardly cover the interest.
I'd do the same thing as the Flames are doing. With supply chain issues they are probably looking at 100 million in overages. Would you bank that much money on east village thriving and downtown not being a ghost town all while the team continues to sell out with tickets going up 30%?