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Originally Posted by Jason14h
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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It's not as simple as there are 32 available teams ready to move at the drop of a hate if their municipality pisses them off. Do you really see the Rangers or Leafs moving? Canucks? Habs?
Do you think even if Kansas City built a new arena with taxpayer money, that team would earn more money than the Flames in Calgary would? Don't the Panthers have a sweetheart arena deal with Miami? How much money do they make?
I think the relocation threats are empty.