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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
As I said I don't think that Erixon acted in good faith and he didn't want to play in Calgary (or in all likelihood anywhere but with the Rangers) but the Flames didn't give him any reasons to want to play here. I think that this is a loophole that the NHL should look at and perhaps bargain with the union by increasing the years from 2 to 3 or 4 that a team has to sign a player but I doubt that the union would agree to that.
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I think they gave him at least 3 million reasons worth.
Sorry I just can't see how the Flames are in the wrong here at all. By all accounts, this is a first class organization in how it treats its players. It may suck on the ice, but Ken King and Darryl Sutter before Feaster have always stood up for their players. It's why players cry when they leave and why they come back when they can.
If you say the Flames didn't give him any reason to want to play here then let me ask you what else they could have done?
Moved the team to NY? Rename the team to "the Erixon's of NY"? Hire his dad as GM and trade for his cousin Lindberg? Or maybe Feaster should have been talking with them DURING the season even though IIHF rules prohibit it, but then that would be as unethical as an opposing GM trying to convince an agent of a player to hold out signing with the team that drafted him until the last minute so he can strike a better deal in acquiring said player?