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Originally Posted by dobbles
sure zetterberg isnt gretzky. however, in my opinion he is a better player than iginla. not by much, but better. if you look at a per game average, they are very similar since the lockout; iginla is 1.014 and Z is 1.017. however the difference in my opinion is that in his own zone he is much better. regardless, thats not really the point.
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Iginla and Zetterberg were both inconsistent last year and by both of their standards had very sub-par years. Zetterberg is definitely the better all around player at this point in his career but as far as finishing goes Iginla is the guy.
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the point i was trying to make is that in detroit hudler was shielded better. he was on the second line which already got him away from most top pairing defensemen as they played the datsyuk line. (maybe you can start arguing that datsyuk isnt that good next?) and while hudler was on the 2nd line, he was the 3rd best player on the line.
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Iginla, Tanguay, Cammalleri, Glencorss, Hudler, Beartschi, Cervenka, Stempniak and probably Backlund.
Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Bertuzzi, Filppula, Cleary, Franzen, Helm, Miller, Adelkader/Holmstrom(is he coming back? I have no idea)
While Calgary doesn't have a Datsyuk, at this point in time I would say Calgary has more top 9 depth than Detroit. Hudler is just as sheilded in Calgary as he was in Detroit. The biggest question is will the team as a whole buy into Hartleys plan.