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Originally Posted by Igottago
Really, Iggy can't be the only guy on the team in order to do that. How hard is that to understand? You guys talk as if Iginla was supposed to strap the entire team on his back and lead them to numerous cups (he almost did do it one time). That doesn't happen, I don't care who the supposed "leader" is. They need a great team around them.
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No. What he was supposed to do is lead by example and buy into the coaching systems that Playfair and Sutter developed (Keenan let him do whatever he wanted). Sometimes the best thing a leader can is to behave the way the team expects the 4th liner brought up from the AHL is expected to play - do everything the coach says and play like this could be your last shift in the NHL.
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Originally Posted by Igottago
Show me how many Stanley Cup winners in the past 15 years had 1 star player.
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If the Flames have only had one star player on the team for the last 8 years, then how in the heck did they manage to spend to the cap every year? We must surely have been the worst managed team in the league in that period. And yet many of the same people who are defending Iginla were defending Darryl Sutter during his tenure. Something doesn't add up.
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Originally Posted by Igottago
The notion that Iginla is solely responsible for the team's lack of success is outlandish.
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Whoever said that? In the NHL, if your team isn't chock full of talent, the only way you can win is with 100 per cent buy-in to two-way hockey from the entire roster. The problem with Iginla is at some point he got the attitude that scoring goals was his only job. He wouldn't buy in to the kind of 4-line, total commitment system that has seen teams like the Predators, Coyotes, and Blues find success with less talent (and less money) than the Flames.