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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
His biggest mistake was probably announcing that he was taking Calgary off the table. Seravelli was on 960 earlier saying that talks with NJ had hit a snag of some type, and I wonder if NJ knew they were the only player in town and used it as leverage to not budge. That may have made Johnny angry, and now he was stuck without an option.
Had he and his agent said Calgary is still in play, he could have leveraged it properly.
Woof. Really gotta point fingers at the agent here imo.
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Or perhaps say nothing at all other than 'I will be exploring my options as a UFA.'
The attempt at playing the media backfired a lot, and I can't imagine the teams that got screwed over here are very happy about it. He tarnished his reputation in less than a week.