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Originally Posted by kehatch
First, the lack of consistent success goes well beyond this season. Start with the beginning and go to the end of the last period between lockouts.
A lack of team character has been an issue ever since Sutter one stopped coaching the team. In fact, Sutter fired Playfair because the senior leaders he thought would have stepped up didn't. Every coach (Sutter one, Playfair, Keenan, Sutter two) and GM (Sutter one, Feaster) has talked about the character and leadership issues of this team.
A lack of team leadership has plagued this team for most of a decade. And Iginla is the team's leader. People that give him a full pass are in naive bliss. Must be nice.
Second, you clearly didn't follow the thread. The issue is that some people feel we owe it to Iginla to give him the time to make this hard decision. Even if it goes past the deadline or he gets injured. I disagree. We don't owe that to Iginla at all. Iginla owes it to us, the people that have funded and supported him, to either sign an extension or agree to a trade.
The fact that the he isn't talking deal or trade with the team is disrespectful to the franchise that supported him.
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Fair enough on your last point if he's jerking them around. Certainly any GOOD management team would have been in these discussions for a while now. With a NTC, talking trade with him would be necessary as well obviously. Maybe they are talking about it in private which would be the ideal situation. It just sucks for us fans to not know I suppose.
But on coaches/GMs talking leadership issues, you are WAY off. Coaches and GMs say those things to deflect blame off themselves. Nothing more. Because if the "leadership" isn't the problem...then it's the quality of the roster, which falls on the GM.
Really, I would be quite ok with Feaster if it wasn't already obvious (given the neutral trade deadlines, and the O'Reilly debacle) that it's more of the same as we saw under Darryl. Patchwork, patchwork patchwork. Iginla + Kiprusoff + patchwork = playoffs maybe. Darryl made a freaking mess, and Feaster isn't doing a great job to clean up, and could even be making it worse.
But this is all Iginla's fault.