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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
Another city preparing to build a shiny new arena perhaps in a strong effort to lure an NHL team. Perhaps they know something we don't. If gnashing Nenshi thinks the Flames moving in the next 5 years isn't a possibility lmao. He will be known as the mayor that ended the Calgary Flames. That will be part of his legacy.
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People realize the West still needs an expansion team right? And potentially a soft landing spot for the Coyotes on top of that? Moving Calgary does absolutely nothing to address those elephants in the room. Why is the league going to prefer financially shuffling deck chairs around with yet another relocation crisis when they can get a substantially larger cash injection through another expansion franchise? The arena announcement doesn't make the relocation threats any less of a bluff than they were the first time the Flames used it.
It's ironic that the owners are so eager to compare the situation to Edmonton's, considering how the Oilers' ownership has since come out and admitted all their threatening rhetoric and their city visit stunts to get their arena had no basis in any actual relocation plan and was a transparent ploy to twist the city's arm. Fool me once.