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Old 09-12-2017, 04:52 PM   #1
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Flames Ken King: Flames' owners no longer pursuing new arena with City of Calgary

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Breaking: Ken King drops bombshell, saying owners no longer going to pursue new arena in Calgary.

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King: "It's time we stopped pretending."

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King: "we will operate as long as we can."

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King spoke to Mayor and determined the city has no genuine interest in helping build a building. Talks over.

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King re future of Flames in Calgary: "I don't know what this means."

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King on the city's stance re a new rink: "their message is it's not going to work"
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Default Ken King says CSEG Will No Longer Pursue New Arena

The below tweets were just posted on Twitter by Eric Francis


King re future of Flames in Calgary: "I don't know what this means."

King spoke to Mayor and determined the city has no genuine interest in helping build a building. Talks over.

King: "we will operate as long as we can."

King: "It's time we stopped pretending."

Breaking: Ken King drops bombshell, saying owners no longer going to pursue new arena in Calgary.
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Old 09-12-2017, 04:54 PM   #3
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Flames CEO Ken King: "You can't make a deal...there's a different view of what's fair." King not commenting on possible relocation

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Also Bettman is here for this. #yyc #NHL
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Fear and hysteria will ensue as this will take a comical route with Seattle announcing a new arena.
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Let the relocation threats begin. What an embarrassment.
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Well that's a nice black cloud to start the season with. So instead of the focus being on a great up and coming team we get to hear all the BS about moving to Seattle I guess.
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I'm sure the timing alongside news of a new Seattle arena is purely coincidental.
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hehe.. so many threads Sureloss'd

Just putting it on the backburner for the next Mayor.
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And with the announcement from Seattle today this is both painfully obvious and cringe inducing.
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... until Calgary gets the Olympics
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This organization really makes it hard to cheer for it sometimes. Geez.
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About as believable as Sam Bennett's agent's threat that he'd play in Europe.
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Ken King has presided over a complete cluster#### for years now.

He can't even deliver a plan that appeals to fans on a fans forum. What hope did he have with City Hall?

What will it take for this organisation to get rid of him?
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I think Murray Edwards is finally voicing his opinion. "Give us what we've been asking for or we'll find someone who will". Never thought it would come to this.
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I'm sure the timing alongside news of a new Seattle arena is purely coincidental.


That.

Timing of the municipal election.

Response to Nenshi's "bold plan".
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These kind of games are just childish. Both sides. What a downer to start a season on. This will hang over the club all year. Going to be a distraction.
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Clearly Murray Edwards has decided to play politics by dropping this bomb heading into the municipal election - not sure it doesn't backfire though.
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^ What has the City done recently that you would describe as childish? I don't see the equivalence (based, at least, on what we know so far).
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