Alex Formenton sues agent for $20 million

[Jumptheshark]

here is my last 2 cents on one problem of the case


Most people think the NHL careers of all the players involved in the court case is over. My guess he is looking at what Carter Hart got in his time with the flyers and thinks he should have gotten that. This guy only played 1 full season in the NHL. If he wins this he may just win 2 years of the Qualifying sheet and not for the loss of career earning. All players are currenting UFAS and if found NOT guilty they will go back about their careers(MAYBE) Alex is 25 years old and why is he not playing in Europe this year with the likes of Foote or McLeod?

 

[CanadienShark]

Absolute scum. I hope he receives nothing except a large legal bill. The guy has already had an exceptionally large income for someone his age. I don't feel any pity for him at all.

But what was he wearing?

High visibility vest.

 

[ItWasJustified]

Formenton just may not be intelligent.

That's my takeaway. He could've made a lot of money playing in Switzerland, Germany or Russia but instead he quit hockey to work in construction. He could've accepted a qualifying offer from the Ottawa Senators and didn't despite knowing it would become known that he was suspect of a criminal case.
But a person who must be even dumber is Pierre Dorion who offered him a qualifying offer despite him being suspect and he of all people must've known.

 

[ijuka]

I'd say the main problem here is that he's a rapist, not that his agent wronged him. Or?

 

[ozzie]

If there was ever a time to use the phrase 'read the room' it's here.
Alleged, guilty or not. Pretty terrible timing, he obvious can't hack working a real job in construction.

 

[Jumptheshark]

great take from a talking head on the radio.

"Player is suggesting it was the agent who ruined his career"

 

[ColbyChaos]

Worked construction for a month and is already over it lmao

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I wouldn’t settle for one dime if I’m them. Even on their face, these claims are frivolous. I don’t need every has been and never was thinking our agency will pay out money to anyone upset they didn’t make more money in their career. And that’s before even getting into the nature of the particular plaintiff here. Like who do you think comes away with “bad press” here?

Formenton’s bad press is already cemented, he’s got nothing to lose, but if he drags them into court and gets their involvement on the public record, whether they have any sort of possible legal liability, just being attached to the whole hockey Canada situation isn’t ideal for anyone. Hard to draw any conclusions without all the details but if his lawyers are bringing a lawsuit they likely feel they have some sort of leverage to extract a settlement, Newport has plenty of money, they’d likely rather quietly settle and shut him up than get publicly dragged into this whole mess.

It’s a pretty unique situation so I doubt they’d be concerned about future similar lawsuits. More concerning for them is the likely fact that in the early stages of this whole Hockey Canada fiasco they were playing their part in trying to make it go away and protect their earner and his future earnings and they probably don’t want those details coming out.

 

[MXD]

If that is true that could be the ball game. The agent may not have known of the investigation.

... If that's true, that's legally totally on Formenton.

 

[FrozenKing18]

At the bottom of the article, hardly surprising but very fitting:

“Formenton wrote in an affidavit that he is living in the Barrie, Ont., area, working in the construction industry and training both in heavy equipment operation and administration.”

“I have been learning to operate excavators, skid-steer loaders and rollers,” he wrote. “Having focused on hockey my entire life, it is challenging to transition to a new line of work.”

Cry me a f***in' river lol

 

[FanCos]

I'd say the main problem here is that he's a rapist, not that his agent wronged him. Or?

Many think the worst thing about rapists is that they are hypocrites, though some disagree and say it's the raping.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Formenton’s bad press is already cemented, he’s got nothing to lose, but if he drags them into court and gets their involvement on the public record, whether they have any sort of possible legal liability, just being attached to the whole hockey Canada situation isn’t ideal for anyone. Hard to draw any conclusions without all the details but if his lawyers are bringing a lawsuit they likely feel they have some sort of leverage to extract a settlement, Newport has plenty of money, they’d likely rather quietly settle and shut him up than get publicly dragged into this whole mess.

It’s a pretty unique situation so I doubt they’d be concerned about future similar lawsuits. More concerning for them is the likely fact that in the early stages of this whole Hockey Canada fiasco they were playing their part in trying to make it go away and protect their earner and his future earnings and they probably don’t want those details coming out.

They’d only settle if it got passed summary judgment (Canadian equivalent)

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Definitely says a lot about his attitude. Is gifted a pretty lucrative hockey career..blows it. Gifted a very rich girlfriend and family with access to a lucrative construction career, and now cries about how hard it is and how he deserves millions.

He forgets he is the customer. He could've fired Newport at any time if he felt unsatisfied with them and moved to a different agency.

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

It is going to be hilarious when these guys are proven innocent.

 

[MCR74]

I hope Formenton knows that if he somehow sees any money from this suit, his lawyers will be taking their share. Seeing as cases like this are often done on contingency, he could be out a good chunk of change.

 

[Jumptheshark]

... If that's true, that's legally totally on Formenton.

Here are the questions I have IF THE NYT/Athletic article is correct

1) Did the agent know about them investigation before telling his client to turn down the Q offer?
2) Did the player at anytime inform his agent that there was an investigation? IF so when?
3) Did the agent at any time try to get an offer sheet from another team or try to arrange a trade for his client.
4) IF the agent could not get an agreement elsewhere--did he go back to the sens?

More questions than answers but with him suing for career loses that grabs my attention. If he had sign the Q sheet it would have been worth about 1.7 mill I think. A two year deal would have been in affect when the players were al; put on leave so that is the money I think he should be suing for..not the money that Carter Hart got through his career

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Article says, 2 years plus future earnings, not sure if you read article.

How many hours do you have to work earning $3.35 per hour making license plates to earn $20m?

 

[WarriorofTime]

But it quite literally doesn’t matter if he would’ve played 750 games or 200 when speaking about if he could recover something. He doesn’t have to show he would’ve been a great NHL player. If he could’ve worked in the NHL at the time, he has grounds to recover. And considering NHL teams cycle through plenty of players regularly who only get play a few hundred games, there’s pretty much no scenario he wasn’t receiving some type of one way deal if he was a UFA. He absolutely has decent grounds to claim he could’ve earned an NHL salary for at least 2 seasons past his last season.

Pavel, this isn’t how negligence works or how damages in a civil case work. Having regrets and wondering what mighta been is not sound legal ground for recovery. If you read his claim, it’s basically that they advised him not to sign qualifying offer (nobody signs their qualifying offer btw), he followed that advice and it didn’t turn out well for him.

 

[WATTAGE4451]

Innocent until proven guilty.

Innocent until proven guilty is mimed out by lots of people but any lawyer will tell you thats not a thing. You arent guilty u til proven but that doesnt mean ylu are innocent. Innocence is whether ylu a tually did it or not and thats not proven either way. Being found not guilty is not the same as being exhonerated and that hasnt even happened anyway.

The 0hrase innocent until guilty is actually nowhere listed in the legal system and its a misunderstanding of the definitions that everylne mimes.

And people cam absolutely have opions on it. No one has to assume hes innocent before the trial.