Places like Vegas and Green Bay PSL's made sense for different reasons - be it insane demand, disposable income, unique opportunity in a destination city (Green Bay amirite), or a rabid fan base of a perennial contender. I just don't see any of those factors panning out here in Calgary for that amount of cash. Sure there is money flowing, but aside from corporate seats, I can't see 10,000+ Calgarians putting up that amount of cash for seats. We're not a huge market or a crazy hockey city that might offset that; you could probably get $50k in Toronto, but Flames can hardly retain their existing STHs, let alone asking them for $20k each more.
There's a reason it wasn't an option
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