The Rest of the Story – Belanger

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We need to respond and we need to be transparent.

I am sad to have to point to this article. All of this is allowing you to see how sometimes sausage gets made. I honestly wish none of this had become public but this is our side of the story. I was fully briefed and I believe what is written here to be fact.

You can and should make your own decision but it is just time now for us to put our side of the story out there.

I like and respect Eric as a player. I wish this had worked out in a different manner.

I wish him well.

5 thoughts on “The Rest of the Story – Belanger”

  2. I may disagree with some of what you do but I believe you are basically an honest and fair person and run the Capitals accordingly. This sounds like an agent who messed up big time and is now looking for a scapegoat. I appreciate that the Caps ran their side of the story instead of just keeping silent and letting us all wonder what really happened.

  3. Did anyone ask Belanger to commit to more than 2 to 5 days? It was Belanger’s agent who allowed the situation to drag out for as long as it did, there was absolutely nothing stopping him from saying “this is taking too long we need to pursue other options.” I don’t know much about this business or this situation, but were I an agent there isn’t a shot in hell I’d wait literally 7 times longer then I was asked to before considering other options. To me this is a bad agent doing a bad job and looking for a scape goat. It doesn’t seem that our camp ever lied, the organization stated that the only way we could sign him is if we made a trade, we didn’t make a trade, we didn’t sign him. Why is that so difficult?

  5. It sounds like amateur hour by a wannabe agent who thought more of himself than his client! I’m no expert but I believe he should not be allowed to represent anyone else!