Not sure if it's been posted but from ESPN;
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Larionov said he'd like to sit down with Eakins, somebody he said he doesn't know at all. He said he's already had conversations with Edmonton GM Craig MacTavish and made it clear that they'd be open to a trade if the Oilers had soured on the forward taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 draft.
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Is it normal for a player's agent to sit with the head coach and discuss how his player is being used? Pretty bizarre IMO. Unfortunately this is what you sign on for when you draft a Russian player this high. Obviously not all of them are cut from the same cloth but there seems to be a major sense of entitlement with some of the top Russian prospects.