[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by united

Great summary, 3thirty! Only a couple minor adds and likely nothing new:

Building
- Suites will overhang the last few rows of the lower bowl, helping create the steeper more intimidating atmosphere versus spread-out.
- Later this fall? The Flames will have a room-sized model of the interior of the new arena which season tickets holders will be invited to attend and walk through.
- Many more season ticket holder options beyond just suites and seats: standing tables, theatre seats, booths as examples.
- Wider variety of options for pre-/post-game activities, from clubs to places for families.
- Lower bowl will be 28 rows as you noted which compares to the Saddledome's 13-row lower bowl aside from 24-row zamboni end.
- On the ticket prices rambling non-answer, said at the end they aren't in the business of taking advantage of their customers. That made me chuckle.

Hockey
- Bahl was one of the players they specifically targeted after seeing the impact no Zadorov had.
- On draft, context of the question was if they would be picking a centre. Conroy stated the approach is always best player available but like you said, C over D all things equal as have a cupboard of high-end D prospects.
- Has authority to spend to the cap right now, but isn't going to spend just for the sake of filling open cap space. Don't have to use space on July 1st and no retention opportunities came to fruition at deadline. But, will certainly be knocking on the doors of all top UFAs.
- They were and remain willing to spend draft capital to get a young, established centre however the player must fit that criteria as they are cognizant of situations where spending draft capital for the purposes of accelerating window didn't work.
- Could have made minor moves at the deadline but in addition to prices like you mentioned, Conroy said he felt he owed it to the team and leadership group to push for the playoffs as is.

Do they think they are in a contention window?