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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
In Quebec the Habs paid for their own arena. But different political culture there, less reliance on government handouts.
In LA it was private funded
In Vancouver it was privately funded
In Toronto it was privately funded
Boston it was privately funded
But some places in North America have the taxpayer pay for the arena, like Calgary.
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The only one of those cities listed that is any way and shape comparable to the population of Calgary is Vancouver and building that arena bankrupted Arthur Griffiths.
The Molson Family also had to sell the Canadiens due to the arena bankrupting them, same thing happened in Ottawa and the group that built Canada Life Place in Winnipeg.
Toronto are the only team to stay afloat after building their own arena and this is a team that has managed to keep a second team out of Southern Ontario despite it being the largest hockey market in the world.
I know a lot of you hate Murray Edwards but give him some credit, he's not dumb enough to bankrupt himself building his own arena.