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Originally Posted by EVERLAST
One thing Rhett said on the air this morning was "hey all I needed to do to get Iginla fired up when I played was start shoving in a scrum after the whistle and Iginla'd be there real fast"
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As Rhett has some experience playing with Iginla I wonder if he was a bit calculating in his remarks about him? He obviously has some idea as to what makes him tick so I think his goal may have been to get Iggy fired up by having a former teammate criticize him publicly.
I'm definitely with the "it had an impact on Iggy" crowd. I think he's well tuned in to what the city's perception of him is, on and off the ice, and is the type of person who will try and prove the naysayers wrong if they get vocal enough. I'm not saying Iggy's game was a direct response to Rhett's comments but I think Iggy knew he'd been faltering a bit the past few games and had to be better and this only added to it.