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Originally Posted by jayswin
The silliest part of these constant lectures about the team leaving if our stupid citizens and city don't give in and get a new arena built is that the damn city ALREADY agreed to a deal to have a new arena built!!
Anyone following along knows that supply costs skyrocketing during Covid caused the Flames to look for any way they could to back out of the deal because of this, and that's what they did. They knew exactly what they were doing with the city to make that deal fall apart, like c'mon guys.
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I think the Flames pulled out because they knew Calgarians were desperate for a billion dollar venue to host the International Livestock Auctioneer Championships during Stampede and knew they could press them for more public dollars.