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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Correct. The Calgary owners are not like Toronto and others that will gladly spend excess dollars if it helps the team. Calgary will spend to the cap, but they don't like to spend more than that unless absolutely required. Signing deals where the fallback position may well be "burying it in the minors" is not something they will do lightly.
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BTW, it should be noted as to if what you said is true (and btw I believe it's at least directionally correct) about Calgary vs. Toronto owners, that people also accept the reasons why that would be the case.
Not actually saying you were implying this with you post Cobra at all, but I think there is so much "complaining" about our owner (who has you mentioned spends to the cap) and how we need an owner that will be less frugal. People need to accept the realities between Toronto and Calgary as businesses simply aren't the same. Toronto can afford to "waste" real money so to speak. The profit and revenue generated by the Leafs is so much higher. Simply stated, it's a far more profitable business, so they have the money to spend.
And that's not because it's "better" run business. It's based on the simple fact, that they have an NHL monopoly (that's topic for another day) in the largest hockey market in the world. ~6.4M people in the GTA, not to mention the rest of the Leafs Ontario fan base to generate revenue off of. That's 50% more people in the GTA than all of AB, that splits the NHL market into 2 teams.