Alex Formenton sues agent for $20 million

[Oddbob]

Puhlease! They didn't cost him any extra money. No team was signing him in the NHL with the rape allegations regardless. Even if he got a contract it would get terminated due to breach of contract.

 

[Stive Morgan]

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

I would hope so because that would mean no victim either

 

[sena]

I think it's going to be hard for Formenton to make a case here. There isn't a well established precedent of what an NHL agent is supposed to achieve when the client is an alleged rapist. And the latter is going to be the ultimate reason for his contract negotiations and career to go in the direction it went. I think for him to succeed he would have to essentially prove otherwise, and that doesn't seem very likely.

And that's before even getting into the fact that without a valid active contract between him and the agent, there wasn't any real obligation from the agent to do anything (other than maybe relay an offer if any such offer came his way).

He was given bad advice and told it was normal he didn't need to sign his offer, when in reality he did need to
There is also another factor, if these guys and the legal teams think that there is zero chance of being found guilty due to lack of any evidence they will be suing the crown for loss of income. So he might be trying to show loss of income since he is the only guy without a contract

Crown counsel must only proceed with prosecutionsFootnote1 where two conditions are met:

1. There is a reasonable prospect of conviction; and
2. The prosecution is in the public interest.

 

[JPT]

It is terrible when people get taken advantage of by others and it's not their fault and they don't want it to happen, isn't it?

The thread should have ended with this post

 

[JPT]

I know people don't like the guy, but that shouldn't cloud whether he has a case here.

He's innocent until proven guilty with the rape case. He has every right to sue the agent because of how they handled his career after the rape allegations. They don't have the right to misrepresent him just because he might've raped someone. Bad guys are represented too, and we don't even know for sure he's a bad guy. Time will tell about that.

His claims don't sound frivolous. Doubt he gets all the money he's suing for, but depending on the details he may have a case. I doubt it goes to trial. They'll probably just settle for some small amount.

Except his case is built around a claim of future earnings which would have absolutely been impacted by just the allegations, not to mention how they would have been impacted if he is found guilty.