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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I’ve not been impressed by Rogers. In fact, concessions are just as good, if not better, at the Dome IMO. But T-Mobil is great so improvements in a new building are possible.
All that said, the Dome has more fundamental underlying issues - the roof, seating, etc.
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And more fundamental than that for hockey, the ice plant which has been replaced multiple times pre-flood and KK (RIP) said there was nothing more could be done to improve that aspect.
Katz basically made it a condition of buying the team that he gets cooperation in a new rink. It was said multiple times by him at the first presser. Everyone forgot about that until years later he brings that up and calls that in. That certainly played into Edmonton City Council's call. The Oilers had 29 owners for a while before that, they were toast up there without Katz and the City knew it.
The Flames ownership's original error in all this was not going ahead with fully ready to dig plans in 2006ish. The team would've been a in a new building for a decade now. The political and (now-intertwined) social media climate was vastly different and more favorable than it turned to even 6 years later, let alone now 15 years later which has made it hard for the Flames to navigate, nevermind costs going up over that time too.