Well there's one other avenue the Flames could have explored here that doesn't seem to have been discussed much.
They could have let Erixon re-enter and pick him 13th overall.
At first it seems dumb as you are basically throwing away a 1st rounder since you used two firsts on the same player.
But it would also
a) show Erixon's camp that this kind of monkey business doesn't fly
b) show Slats that the tampering business doesn't fly
Or at the very least you tell Sather that you have no problems re-drafting at 13 and force the price up in the trade. Let it be clear to Erixon's camp as well...see if they are willing to throw away another 2 years of his career just to eventually play somewhere else.
Would be a ballsy thing to do but I guess we'll never know how it might have turned out.
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