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Old 09-22-2017, 12:52 PM   #2249
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Originally Posted by New Era View Post
So the real solution here is community ownership like the Green Bay Packers, and run as a non-profit. That would be interesting and an idea I could get behind, if longsuffering is okay with that of course.

It really would be an interesting model (especially for the small Canadian NHL markets). I'm going to guess that Flames ownership has zero interest in divesting themselves from Flames ownership this way (I'll let people draw their own cynical conclusions from that).
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