Bettman used his speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce to make vague and somewhat bizarre threats to the people of Calgary not yet on board the Flames' owners expensive proposal.
Be warned: if you don't open up your wallet to give money to the CalgaryNEXT project, the city of Calgary itself fall to ruins. It would simply wink into the the void. Seriously! Gary Bettman really - desperately - wants you to believe this.
It is not an overstatement to say the future stability, viability and continuity of the Calgary Flames, and perhaps the city of Calgary, rests on the achievement of CalgaryNEXT.