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Originally Posted by Fire
Calgary is not a top ten market without a new arena. The Flames could move to Seattle, pay the relocation fee. Once the city of Calgary wakes up and builds a new arena on their own dime, a group will surface willing to pay for an expansion team or have another team relocate back to Calgary.
I doubt the TV deal that Rogers sign has any out clause. It's only a 12 year deal. If the Flames move it might not be until that is deal done or basically done anyway. It's a non-factor. The naming rights for the new arena would probably fall in the $5-$10 million/yr range. This isn't Toronto, they are not getting anything close to that deal.
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And the City is offering to pay them 155 million dollars, no strings attached, to build one. And no paying property tax is not a string. They're going to pay money to move to a market where they would be the 4th choice sports team, until the NBA returns and they become a 5th tier team in that city, where they collect arena revenue 42 nights a year instead of every night something happens in the arena, and by the way, also pay a lease on the arena? Who's broadcasting the games, Fox Sports regional? You're saying all that represents more money to the ownerships pockets than what the city currently has on the table? Really?
It's really hard if not impossible to imagine a situation in an available US market, where a hockey team owner has even close to the opportunity to make money at the same rate the Flames would if they took exactly what is on the table today.
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