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Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
Would not be against the City of Calgary building their own event centre, where they (we) get a cut of the sales of tickets, parking, concessions etc etc etc. When the city was (briefly) thinking about going ahead with their own building I was for it. They could go to CSEC and say hey, we have this hockey rink, we're not building another one, let's work something out.
It's saying something when guys don't have anything (even Cali Panthers) but emotional appeals about the team leaving and begging to look at the "big picture". Sorry some of you don't like criticisms of the deal. If you want a feel good only thread, go start that. Instead others will continue to think critically about the situation and not just ask Murray Edwards to go gentle.
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There has been almost no political will to get this arena deal done WITH a major anchor tenant.
Why would that change if the Flames left? The argument would become “we don’t even have a hockey team, we can go to Edmonton or Vancouver for the weekend if we really want to see a show.”