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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The inexcusable failure was the Flames not seeking a clear ruling on what would happen BEFORE making the offer sheet.
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See, I think that was a feature, not a bug. The Flames (and this other team, evidently) thought they could pull a fast one. The lack of a clear ruling is what they were counting on to try and sneak him through without waivers.
Fortunately, we don't actually know how this would have turned out with the inevitable conflicts and arbitration. Though I suspect the Flames would have lost both O'Reilly and the pick (Monahan) in the end, so Feaster most certainly deserves criticism for that entire scenario.