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Originally Posted by getbak
I think people are looking at this wrong. The team doesn't need to come out ahead. It doesn't need to be profitable. Even if they lose a few million each year, that's a drop in the bucket for the overall operating costs of the Flames, and if they lose money on the Heat, but it makes the Flames better on the ice, it's worth it.
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Not sure a few million $ loss is "worth it" but that's not really relevant to this.
Again, the Flames have had several opportunities in the last 20 years to have their AHL team move to the Dome and have decided on the whole, against it. If it was a no brainer for whatever metrics the Flames evaluate the success of their minor system and how it feeds the main team, they could've made it happen long ago...but didn't.