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Originally Posted by keenan87
I understand what you are saying and I respect your point of view. I agree that maybe we haven't had another superstar on the team (one can argue Kipper), however, the team has had some very good players at times.
Remember the times when we were contenders at the start of the season 3-4 teams in the past 6-7 years? The likes of Regehr, Phaneuf, Bouwmeester, Tanguay, Jokinen, Huselius, Cammalleri Langkow were not garbage players.
Now if you are going to say that some were good while others weren't, well then what is the job of a captain? If he couldn't get everyone on the same page and rally the guys together, well that to me states that he wasn't a very good captain.
If you say it is the job of the coach to have everyone on the same page, well rumours that Jim Playfair was made fun of in the locker room suggest to me that Iginla let them slide and therefore, isn't a very coachable player.
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Those forwards you list outside Jokinen can thank the captain for the most productive seasons in their careers. Where are these rumours that Playfair was made fun of in te locker room?
People sure like to rag on Iggy for not getting more than 2 banners hanging in the dome but he along with Kipper are the main players that almost won this team a cup when they had little to no business being there. Iggy fighting every series, nearly single handily beating Vancouver in game 7, also engineering the game winning goal in game 5 of the SCF.
I can't believe it has come to the point where there is a section of the fan base that is basically trying to run the guy out of town. It is embarrassing to the fanbase