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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Very fair and good ideas and I agree. I wonder if they tried these things in the negotiations and they didn’t work. That’s the other part of this, what’s the city’s BATNA and does this deal surpass that? Even though people may think it’s a bad deal, is this not still preferable than the Flames leaving? I truly wonder if they polled broadly Calgarians what the answer may be and it may leave many of us huge fans a bit disappointed haha.
This all presupposes people believe the risk of them leaving is real too, and there’s obviously much debate about that too. Personally I think it is real only based on the fact that Edwards and owners would sell and there could be only potential buyers that are able to get some other city to build them a rink or view the business case of relocating as superior which I do believe is possible.
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This is it. The city had no true BATNA and Edwards did.