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Originally Posted by Jay Random
How do you propose that governments do this? Pass a law that somehow applies in both Canada and the U.S., evicting every NHL team from every arena that was built with public money, and then force them to buy the arenas at the original cost of construction?
Because the only subsidy that most NHL teams are receiving is the ability to play in a publicly-funded arena that has already been built – decades ago in the majority of cases.
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Your points are becoming less and less coherent.
It's not really of great interest to me what has happened in the past or how other cities might be making ill-advised gifts to pro sports teams. What I do know is that the CoC should not be giving hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts to the NHL and the players.
I do not think the NHL/NHLPA as a league/franchisor has a good business model if it is restricted to the 15-20 american markets that are able to get public gifts or are large enough to justify a privately owned building. But they are are going to have to make that decision on their own.