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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If the list of young players Iggy had 'mentored' was one tenth as long as the list of guys who got inflated contracts after playing with him, we wouldn't need to rebuild.
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I would argue read the post before responding please. The poster didn't say he is a mentor, but rather could grow into a role.
Name the draft picks with actual talent that Iginla could have even mentored. Right he was supposed to take Nystrom and turn him into a power forward thats not what the poster is suggesting. I would suggest it would be very difficult to work for you at all, because if someone hasn't done something you wouldn't even give me the chance to see if they were any good at it. Yesh, before saying Iginla is not capable of a skill maybe we pass along some of this responsibility first. Who would have thought Mario could help to mentor Sidney, or Sakic could mentor Hejduk, or Yzerman could mentor Datsyuk. It happens many times over in Hockey. No one is trying to argue keep Iggy to mentor. However I'm not prepared to just give him away either for a 3rd rounder or something dumb either. If that are the only offers than I'm prepared to say keep him, but not at $5MM dollars/year either.