Owners made a tactical error proposing the west side location on land requiring a major toxic clean-up, at taxpayer's expense, leading to a bill three times more than the cost of the Edmonton arena.  Yeah, I know that included a new Stamps facility, but overall, this broad proposal just stank from day one and appeared to be completely tone deaf to the local economic conditions.   Owners need to wake up to the fact that they have little sympathy when govt is already in a difficult financial position and unemployment is over 10%.  But owners do have the ultimate ace in their deck of cards.  Eventually a deal will be struck, no richer than the Edmonton arena deal.