Yeah I'm not a fan of Murray Edwards the person...but all this talk of better ownership, and finally having a good ownership group is quite ridiculous.
These guys stepped up to save this team when nobody else wanted to, continue to spend to the cap every season, try to put a good product on the ice, and actually were willing to put more of their own money into a rink than Katz and the ownership group in Edmonton.
Really in the end I think the deal the city came to with the Flames was quite fair, especially with the Flames covering cost overruns.
Trying to add these additional costs is a bad move by the city IMO. They had a deal that was fair for both sides, and won the battle in July when the Flames agreed to cover cost overruns. This is the city getting greedy at this point IMO.
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