Calgary Herald: 'We'll just leave': Brian Burke's blunt talk about arena options disavowed by Flames

Posted by on June 08, 2017

Calgary Herald: 'We'll just leave': Brian Burke's blunt talk about arena options disavowed by Flames

In what has been the bluntest talk yet about the future of the Calgary Flames, president of hockey operations Brian Burke said the NHL team will move if a new arena is not built.
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“We’re not going to make the threat to leave. We’ll just leave,” Burke told a business luncheon at the Canadian Club of Calgary on Wednesday.

“We still have a building that was built in 1983, the oldest in the league by more than 10 years.

“They figured it out in Edmonton, where they know that a new building can rejuvenate the downtown. But I guess we’re just smarter than that here.”