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EDMONTON -- The on-again-off-again deal to build a new rink for the Edmonton Oilers is on -- again. City councillors and the Edmonton Oilers agreed Wednesday to split the cost of the final $30 million needed to green light the wavy-shaped steel-and-glass structure in the citys downtown in time for the 2016-17 NHL season. "This has been a long and difficult process," Mayor Stephen Mandel told councillors. "We need to make sure that we build a city that attracts and retains the younger generation." Construction is to start next spring and the city plans to pay off some of its debt through increased tax revenues from shops and businesses expected to spring up around the arena. The total cost, including the rink and surrounding infrastructure, comes in at $604.5 million. Under the arrangement, the Oilers are to pay $161.5 million, the city $279 million and another $125 million is to come from a ticket tax. Last week, Mandel and political leaders from surrounding regions voted to seek another $25 million from the province under a regional grant program. The city says it will seek an additional $14 million in grants for a community rink attached to the project. "The result today is a landmark agreement that enables our city to move forward in an enormously positive way," said Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz, who was not at Wednesdays council meeting, but spoke with reporters via speaker phone. The decision saves a resurrected deal agreed to by council and Katz in January, but which had slipped into limbo after Premier Alison Redfords government refused to provide $100 million. Redford and her predecessor Ed Stelmach never promised any direct funding, but city council struck the deal in January anyway, hoping the money would come through somehow. When it didnt, councillors scrambled to find alternative sources for the cash. Last month, they voted to use $45 million in provincial infrastructure grant money. On Wednesday they changed that plan. They now expect that money to accrue from increased tax revenues around the arena. Political leaders from the capital region narrowly voted last week to back an application for the $25-million provincial grant. That left $30 million. Half of the remainder is to come from Katz and the city expects the other half to be recouped from increased tax revenues arising from the development. The deal has divided Edmontonians into those who want public dollars to go to the arena, those who dont and those who are OK with public money, but say the deal is far too lopsided in Katzs favour. Last week, Mandel got into an argument with hecklers in council chambers, who demanded he put the arena on a plebiscite. The city is to build and own the arena and pay for all major repairs and renovations. The Oilers, in turn, are to pay $6 million a year in lease payments and pay for day-to-day arena upkeep. Katz is to keep all the profits from tickets, concessions and parking for all events -- Oilers-related or otherwise. Katz also is to receive $2 million a year from the city in return for advertising for 10 years and to keep naming rights for the building, estimated at $1 million to $3 million a year. In return, Katz has promised the Oilers will stay in Edmonton for 35 years. The vote was not unanimous. Coun. Kerry Diotte said the deal was poor for taxpayers when it was first struck in 2011 and is worse now. "This has morphed into a Frankenstein monster. Even the worst referee in the NHL could see this is way offside," Diotte told councillors. Coun. Tony Caterina agreed. He said no one knows for sure if the extra tax revenues from the arena will materialize. The risk tolerance for taxpayers, he said, is "way too high." Councils decision wrote what many hope will be the final chapter in what has become the citys longest-running soap opera. The deal has been talked about for seven years and been on a roller coaster for the last two. Councillors and Katz first shook hands in the fall of 2011, but the deal fell apart a year later when Katz demanded an extra $210 million from taxpayers and refused to meet with councillors in public to explain why. He also incurred wrath from fans and councillors when he began talks aimed at moving the team to Seattle. Katz eventually dropped the Seattle threat and the $210-million demand, and in January the two sides resurrected the deal, with Katz off the hook for major repairs to the facility. Katz -- a pharmacy billionaire who owns the Rexall chain of drugstores -- is currently tenant of Rexall Place, where the Oilers now play. Its an arena owned by an arms-length city board. Katz says the Oilers need wider revenue streams to be viable. 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The fact that he was the facilitator of Owens victory, and all of the fallout thats soon to come from that outcome, further cemented its position as one of the most surprising moments the WWE has produced in recent memory.Equally surprising is the fact that just eight days earlier he was nowhere near the Universal championship. At SummerSlam, it was Finn Bálor who defeated Seth Rollins?to become the inaugural champion. Owens only received his chance to compete for the title because Bálor suffered a severe shoulder injury during the match, including a torn labrum and several other complications which required surgery and forced Bálor to relinquish the title.Since Owens and Bálor signed WWE contracts and began their runs in NXT in 2014, their fates have intertwined over and over again -- and, if all goes according to plan, it seems likely that theyll cross paths again, sooner rather than later.Congrats to @FightOwensFight We have been through it all together. Ive no doubt we will go through it all again pic.twitter.com/I7P7wqgFHy- Finn Bálor (@FinnBalor) Aug. 30, 2016Bálor signed in May 2014 and debuted in late September, with Owens signing in August and first appearing at NXT TakeOver: R Evolution in December. Both men were high-profile independent stars, and it was clear from the beginning that both would soon find themselves in the NXT title picture.Owens got there first, defeating Sami Zayn for the NXT championship after a brutal series of attacks and a match that ended by referee stoppage. Bálor was the first person to challenge Owens for the title, and on the March 25, 2015, episode of NXT, they fought for the first time in the WWE. Owens picked up the victory and moved on from Bálor for a time, returning to his conflict with Zayn and another debuting independent superstar, Samoa Joe.It may come as a surprise to some fans, but before their WWE debuts, despite a lengthy history of traveling far and wide in the world of independent wrestling, Owens (formerly known by his real name, Kevin Steen) and Bálor (who went by both his real name, Fergal Devitt, and Prince Devitt) had never faced off before.They followed a similar path, getting their names recognized through hard work and sheer determination. They were also in a similar position within the wrestling world -- strong performers in almost every sense of the word in this business, but neither exactly fitting the previous mold of what a WWE superstar should be.Owens officially began his wrestling career at the age of 16 (his first professional wrestling match was, in fact, on his 16th birthday) in 2000. He developed a strong following among wrestling fans and achieved great success with his vicious style and incredible maneuverability as a big man as he shifted between Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Combat Zone Wrestling, among many other companies. He won both the ROH world championship and the world tag team championships (with Zayn, who portrayed the masked wrestler El Generico at the time) during that time, and he was also a three-time winner of both the PWG world championship and world tag team championships.Bálor, who also began his career in 2000 at the age of 18, made his name overseas in Japan performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling. On top of three IWGP junior heavyweighht championship reigns, six IWGP junior heavyweight tag title reigns and two Best of Super Juniors tournament wins, Bálors popularity exploded as a founding member and eventual leader of the incredibly popular stable known as the Bullet Club in New Japan.ddddddddddddnce within the confines of NXT, it didnt take long for the pair to find common ground and, ultimately, friendship.??INCOMING CALL @FightOwensFight pic.twitter.com/JRRagwOnXV- Finn Bálor (@FinnBalor) Aug. 31, 2016It was inevitable that their paths would cross again in the ring before too long, and their rivalry caught fire again leading up to the first major NXT match outside of the confines of NXTs Full Sail Arena home -- as a major part of the WWE Network Beast in the East in Tokyo, Japan. In front of a Japanese audience that was quite familiar with Bálor, and one that Owens quickly inspired to hate him, Bálor took the first major step of his career and defeated Owens to become NXT champion.Theyd go on to headline NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, another major milestone in that brands history, as their feud culminated with a ladder match main event in which Bálor retained the title.Owens and Bálor departed at this point, with Owens off to the main roster, a massive rivalry with John Cena and the Intercontinental championship. Bálor all but carried the NXT brand for the next year during his record-setting 292-day reign as champion. Hed ultimately lose the title to Samoa Joe, and helped usher in a new era of NXT in a match with his old friend Shinsuke Nakamura, but eventually it was clear he had little left to accomplish there.With Bálors selection in the WWE brand separation draft, he was once again in the same place as Owens, and it didnt take long for their paths to cross once again. With Raw anxious to crown a world champion of their own, a series of matches to determine who would face Rollins for the Universal championship at SummerSlam was scheduled for a single night on Raw.Bálor took on Owens, Rusev and Cesaro in a four-way match to kick off the night, and the crowd got behind what turned into a tremendous showdown between four guys who should play a big part in the companys future. In the closing stages of the match, Bálor hit Owens with his patented Sling Blade slam, which sent Owens out of the ring, and set Rusev up to hit his finisher, the Coup de Grace. He covered Rusev for the three-count as Owens made an ultimately futile dive to try to stop it -- forming yet another layer to their ongoing story.Bálor went on to beat Rollins, win the title and give it up in a 24-hour stretch -- setting up Owens, his friend, to make another major step in his own career.In his impassioned speech before he handed the Universal championship to Mick Foley, Bálor left us with another piece of foreshadowing that helps set the stage for the biggest showdown between himself and Owens to date down the road.Rest assured that when I am healthy, and when I am fit and when I am ready, I will be back and this title is the first thing that Im coming for, he said.While it will be six months, or possibly more, before Bálor makes his return, these two friends should be poised to once again square off as enemies and thrill WWE viewers around the world.I look forward to it. https://t.co/xlIoG71s95 pic.twitter.com/eO1VajSnu3- Kevin Owens (@FightOwensFight) Aug. 30, 2016 ' ' '