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Old 07-04-2020, 11:10 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by getbak View Post
Or...
  1. Flames sign ROR to offer sheet.
  2. Colorado opts not to match.
  3. O'Reilly prepares to join the Flames.
  4. Media member posts game sheets indicating that O'Reilly played 2 games in Russia after the start of the NHL season.
  5. Flames file grievance and NHL launches investigation, suspending the contract.
  6. League determines that O'Reilly's agent failed to disclose important information about his client's status and voids the contract.
  7. O'Reilly is forced to sign with Colorado for whatever they want to give him, or sit out the rest of the season.

All due respect to the hockey ops peeps at the time but if you don't do your due diligence on a player, it's on you, not the agent. The league had the same interpretation.
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