Hard to envision Formenton succeeding in this case. Maybe the agency will give him a small amount to settle and avoid the legal costs. Then again sports agencies are usually packed with lawyers, the extra cost to defend the lawsuit could be minimal for them.
As I said on the other board. This is partly silly. The 20 mill in loss income? He was never going to get that.
He was offered a 2 year qualifying offer at about 900k a year and that is the contract that would have been in place when everything came to light.
The first question Formenton will be asked is when when was he first aware of the investigation? Formenton's lawyer will object and say relevance.
The next question will be when did he inform his agent of the investigation/
Formenton's lawyer will again object and say relevance.
Depending on how the judge rules on those two questions---will tell us how the trial goes.
My math maybe wrong but it think the 2 Q offer was for a total of 1.8 over 2 years. The charges he is facing nukes the whole "lifetime earning thing"
if Formenton did not tell his agent about the investigation when he first knew about it? That could be the game right there. IF the agent learned about from other sources AFTER he turned down the Q offer and other people knew about it? That is the question right there.
And it sounds like the investigation was an open secret in hockey circles for some time
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