I think a lot of people in Ottawa are fed up with the fact that the arena sits far from the city centre in Kanata-The "brain trust" that landed the franchise (Firestone etc) said when the franchise was awarded they would build a >20,000 seat arena that wouldn't cost the taxpayers "anything". Then several years later they complained that if the government didn't "pony up" money to save the team they would be moved. Ottawa was just lucky that Melynk bought the team because they were quite close at that time to be moved to Houston.