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