God damn, I don't care if I'm banned or whatever. This was an embaressment. The players on that team should be ashamed for playing with no pride. It was an important night on HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA, and a FIRST BALLOT HALL OF FAME player reached a career milestone!
Maybe it is Jaromes fault for leaving the Flames, but I have no doubt that this team or any from the past would have put up a much better effort, in fact a world class weffort, for a world class player!
I find it hilarious what some posters feel is ban worthy posting, haha. This guy just comes out of nowhere with a "this'll be my last post cause here comes the banhammer!!!" proclamation, then proceeds to give a scathing but well worded, mildly emotional post towards a TEAM, not another poster.
I bet the mods wish every poster thought this was the type of post that is too personal/distasteful for this site.
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“In Round 1, we were on the bus from the Vancouver rink to the airport to go back to Calgary after splitting the first two games,” said Denis Gauthier, a defenceman on that Flames team. “Everyone in the back of the bus was talking about how we lost Game 1 and how things were going to get tough for us when Jarome caught everyone’s attention by saying, ‘Hey guys, nobody gave us a chance, but we won Game 2, and [Flames goaltender Mikka Kiprusoff] is better than their goalie [Dan Cloutier], this guy is better than that guy, and we can do this. And once we do it, we can go through whoever comes next.’
“He was going into detail about how we’d make our run, and he had such a convincing tone that we kinda forgot that we had no chance of winning against Vancouver. He was so positive. I don’t think we believed in how good we could be, we didn’t have a lot of skill that year. But his sense of belief carried over for all of us and we beat Vancouver in [seven] games, we beat Detroit in six, we beat San Jose in six and lost to Tampa in seven.”
And the way Iginla led on the ice over the course of that run is the stuff of legends.
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“He fought Mattias Ohlund in the first round, fought Derian Hatcher in Detroit, he had a war with San Jose’s Scott Hannan, and he fought Vinny Lecavalier in Tampa,” said Conroy. “It was always a game where we were losing by a goal or two or the game was out of reach or we were down in the series; he did it just to give us a spark. It wasn’t calculated, but he figured it was his chance and he was going to take it right at that moment. He wouldn’t say anything, but he’d be on the bench and you’d know he wasn’t happy and next thing you know he’d just jump someone.
“He was going after the hardest guy. And they played him physical, they were hooking at the time, they were holding, and I think fighting actually gave him more room as the series rolled along, and other guys took notice too. He was like, ‘Are you next?’”
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39 year old playing in his 1,500th and is the only one on the ice to stick up for a teammate. That's Iggy (and the Avs) in a nutshell.
Exactly this.
FWIW Habs color man, former NHLer Sergio Momesso, was very harsh on Emelin for the timing of the hit, and top RDS guy Francois Gagnon called it incredibly stupid, chastised Emelin for hiding behind Price, and heaped praise on Iginla as the old man who was the only who had the sense to step up when the rest of the kids stood around looking at their skate laces.
