While I love an outdoor winter patio in Calgary as much as the next person, the direction it is facing is irrelevant. The sun will have already set by 7pm puck drop from the beginning of the season until the time change in the spring. Sure some pregame beers will happen, but it will mostly be...

It won't be exclusively for NHL players. They wouldn't be able to field 8 full teams. But it does lead to an interesting question about where teams like Germany, Slovakia or Switzerland get the players to fill out their rosters? The NHL must have some sort of agreement in place with leagues in...

I had tickets to the World Juniors here in 2012. All games in Calgary where held at the Saddledome. There was no option to buy individual games. They get 95% tickets sold by only allowing you to buy tickets to the Canada games by forcing you to buy a package that includes all games played in the...

Apologies for sounding crass, I was just pointing out that literally nothing in that post was factually correct. They won't have problems selling tickets to the big games. And just like the World Juniors, the games that feature teams not from the location hosting, will have smaller attendance or...

This isn't correct at all. As @trtcttc noted the official NHL release explicitly says one location in NA and one in Europe. The break will be 12 days long. "Games are expected to be played over 12 days and include 17 games in two host cities, to be selected in March 2026"

They don't even need a joint partner or 2nd arena. Calgary would be only hosting 4 of the 8 teams. The other 4 are going to be hosted in Europe. 4 teams in this pool means 6 pool games. And if Calgary hosts the semi-finals and finals too. That is only 9 games in the 12 days it is scheduled.

This lot is now for sale.

Probably a dumb question (and I can probably guess the answer), as the operators of the facility do the Flames pay for maintenance or any upgrades that are needed (knowing that upgrades hopefully won't be needed for some years) or is that on the taxpayers as well?

Great question. I don't see why the City wouldn't get this money. They own the arena and this isn't related to the Flames as it is a community arena.

"You know, the pit, it's just, it's been there for so long. It's almost, like, a part of Calgary now." - Ann Perkins

It'll be all built out just in time for CSEC to ask for a new arena......

What program/website is this?

Could be a new permanent location of the Coke Stage for Stampede. Might help with some of the crowd control problems faced this past year.

Is there a reason they demolished the strip mall, but left the convenience store?

Does the new arena increase the Flames revenue by more than $20 million a year? If it does, the deal costs them nothing and they profit. But here is the kicker, we will never know because they aren't required to open their books. And this doesn't even take into account the immediate increase in...