I dont believe Karmanos paid a Relo Fee aqib, and Norm Green initially wanted to move the North Stars to Anaheim (re~naming them the L.A. Stars) as they had a new arena on the way. However, with Bruce McNall then in charge of the Expansion & Relocation Committee and in need of $$$, Eisner at Disney actually interested in acquiring a franchise, Green was told to look elsewhere, carte blanche pretty much & no Relo Fee nor Indemnification Fee's attached to a move into Dallas. The only other significant move was the Colorado Rockies to New Jersey, the Devils having to pay Indemnification to NY & Philly, the Islanders, but to the best of my knowledge no Relocation Fee. In all 3 cases old history and pretty much irrelevant in this new millennium & even more so when considering the totality of all thats gone down with this particular franchise. Unprecedented, and whatever precedents were set previously, be it the 70's, 80's or 90's pretty much all tossed to the wind. So whether one considers Relocation or even Expansion, moving target, sliding scale. A Markham or Hamilton Relo or Expansion worth considerably more in terms of Expansion Price Tag or Relo Fee (plus indemnification) than Seattle or Portland, which in turn would be worth more than lets say Austin Texas, Hampton Virginia or Tulsa Oklahoma & so on. The other issue here is why move at all from Glendale as theres just no way their ever going to receive $15M a year in so called "arena management fee's" (or subsidies of anykind that rich) from anywhere else and without any performance clauses....
