Posted Sep 13, 2017, 2:22 PM
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^ Edmonton got absolutely screwed on their arena deal so it's hardly surprising that they're pulling out all the stops to rationalize it.
I'd wager that the NHL is going to learn that Calgary and Edmonton are, despite some outward similarities, two very different beasts. The usual spectacle of Bettman threatening your city's status by holding a gun to the head of the local hockey team will not have the same effect in Calgary... Calgary is a lucrative hockey market with or without a new arena and everybody knows it. Nenshi can call the ownership group's bluff because he knows even if they move the Flames to Seattle, someone is going to move their team to the Saddledome to fill the gap. Calgary is simply too profitable a market not to have a team.
In much the same way that the Leafs could never play this game with Toronto, Calgary has outgrown these tactics common to smaller markets.
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