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The court of public opinion has reached a verdict. Once that has happened, there's no coming back from it. Stay in Europe. It's easier than facing millions of people who never knew this guy's name or ever watched a hockey game constantly attacking you in every city and threatening to boycott games they were never going to go to anyway. I think there's some kind of gentleperson's agreement prohibiting intercontinental virtue signaling so they don't steal each other's views/causes.
 
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It was never going to work in Ottawa, and I am sure that this is as much about doing Formenton a favour as it is avoiding backlash for bringing him back to Ottawa. It has been known for a while now that he wanted a fresh start.

His Swiss League #s won't impress, but I almost guarantee that within 2 years, he will be a very valuable bottom 6er for some team, somewhere. Elite, elite skater, big body, pretty fearless player, chippy, and not devoid of skill. Can PK. Might need some time in the AHL but he has plenty of NHL traits.

May not ever reach his upside, which was probably at least 20+20, but I'd be surprised if he's not at least a 10+15 guy for a while moving forward.
 
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Canadienna said:
26 year old who hasn't played in the NHL for 4 years.

Last year he had 23 points in 42 games in the Swiss league and was a -13.

This makes sense from a hockey perspective, let alone the PR side.
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He scored 18 goals in the NHL as a 22-year-old rookie, PK's very well, fastest skater in the league, 6'3, 200lbs. Players like him tend to look better when they are getting outlets from Thomas Chabot, rather than Tim Heed.

It's purely a PR decision, plus a mutually respectful one.
Masked said:
What a brain dead decision. There's no way it was made by the team's hockey operations.
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He didn't want to return to Ottawa. If we didn't do this now, he likely would have just stayed in Switzerland another year until he could walk as an FA. We maybe could have traded him for FC, but this is the better route to take imo. No need for Staois to waste his time shopping Formenton around the league for no return... may as well let him test the market and pick his destination.
 
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The Devilish Buffoon said:
He scored 18 goals in the NHL as a 22-year-old rookie, PK's very well, fastest skater in the league, 6'3, 200lbs. Players like him tend to look better when they are getting outlets from Thomas Chabot, rather than Tim Heed.

It's purely a PR decision, plus a mutually respectful one.
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He was playing second-line minutes and that was four years ago.

He's now, among other things, a depth forward performing marginally against minor league competition.

He's not worth any sort of PR hit.
 
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Cas said:
He was playing second-line minutes and that was four years ago.

He's now, among other things, a depth forward performing marginally against minor league competition.

He's not worth any sort of PR hit.
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Formenton played 3rd line minutes at ES and substantial time on the PK. He led the league in SH goals.

I am speaking purely about playing ability. He was a very good 3rd liner at age 22, and the reason he's been out of the NHL has nothing to do with his playing ability.

Some team will take him back because they believe in that playing ability, and I suspect that playing ability will get him back in the league before too long. The fact his stats have been just ok in the Swiss League doesn't mean much.
 
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SML2 said:
The court of public opinion has reached a verdict. Once that has happened, there's no coming back from it. Stay in Europe. It's easier than facing millions of people who never knew this guy's name or ever watched a hockey game constantly attacking you in every city and threatening to boycott games they were never going to go to anyway. I think there's some kind of gentleperson's agreement prohibiting intercontinental virtue signaling so they don't steal each other's views/causes.
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aint nobody boycotting s*** lol, as I predicted, just after a few months of the trial ending, nobody would really be talking about it anymore.

Formenton might get some flack on social media for a couple of months after coming back to the league and then after that nobody would care
 
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Natey said:
I assume they wanted to see if he could dominate the Swiss League. If he was a PPG this year, this likely wouldn't have happened.
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Nah, they already said last year that he wouldnt be returning. His agent apparently made it clear that he didn't want to return to Ottawa. I believe there was some uncertainty around whether we were even able to renounce his rights.

My strong suspicion is the league didnt outline the process whereby we could renounce his rights until it was too late last season, so we just had to wait til this year.
 
i think he will be able to succeed in a lower key hockey town. Somewhere where he can exist without a full on media spotlight. Basically anyone in the southern USA
 
Wallet Inspector said:
Dude got screwed over the most out of all the hockey trial players.

Aside from Cal Foote(who was barely an NHL player), the other at least made multi-millions before the scandal, Formenton became an RFA the very summer the charges were pressed.
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Yup absolutely agree, mind blowing that PD just didn't re-sign and play him until proven guilty.

However it's possible the league behind closed doors forced them not to sign Formenton.
 
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