Wait until some of your hear about the tax breaks companies get to put offices in major cities !
The NHL has a scarce product - 32 teams . Cities compete for these 32 teams, via a variety of factors - but mostly ability to generate profit - which a new arena contributes too
Sure each team could finance and pay for their own arena , but then one city without a team who wants one offers a free arena ! Guess what - a lot of teams are then competing to take the free arena Vs paying for their own
If you think the Flames owners will finance their own arena when other cities will finance one for them you are out of your minds and they will leave
Bettman doesn’t like teams moving for a variety of reasons - mostly because it diminishes future ability to sell expansion teams - but if the Flames and the city can’t come to an eventual agreement they will leave
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