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Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Sorry, but this is complete and utter garbage. This should be proof enough that we chose the wrong person as a GM.

From Jay's own mouth - he began negotiating YESTERDAY with New York Rangers, because they had been asking about Erixon. This process should have been started at least a week prior, so that every NHL team could have had a chance to get their hands on Erixon, and drive his value up even further.

He is easily worth a top 10 pick in the draft this year. We didn't get close to that sort of value with him - which is what happens when you only negotiate with a select few GMs. I bet there are more than a few GMs who did not even realize Erixon was on the market.

Fly to NY to meet with his agent? You should have flown to Sweden.

You are a completely unprepared GM if you only started talking with other teams about this yesterday.

Re: concerns over the organization, cap, etc. Feaster should have gone out of his way to guarantee that Erixon would have been given a spot this year. Yes, some of that stuff is impossible to be structured into the contract, but the guy can play. He has shown more than enough at just about every other level to guarantee that he would have made the NHL right out of camp.

Re: Concerns over the agent. If you have past history and can't get along with a certain agent, this is the wrong industry to be in. Settle it. If not, get lost. I do not think that this organization should be hampered by someone's personal grudge with someone else. Try to build a relationship with Grossman, because it seems like there is a lot more under the surface than we are being led to believe.

Ultimately this is a massive failure on the part of the organization. We likely did not maximize return value on this player. We get 2 2nd round picks and a middling prospect in a weak draft.

That is NOT the return we should be aiming for with our poor history of top end player development.

This is an extremely poor start for Feaster as a GM. Too much about this whole situation just stinks.

Sounds to me like Erixon wanted to go to only one team, and he held all the cards.

Literally the Flames hands were tied. Either the Flames could trade him to the NYR for far less than he is worth, or Erixon can be a poopface and refuse to sign a deal, and the Flames are compensated with even less.