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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Honestly? I'm fine with that. Iginla means more to this team and to this city than practically any individual player to any team in the past two decades. If the Flames can't hit a home run by trading him, then I can't see how simply moving him for ANYTHING is justifiable given everything that he has meant for the Flames. The only reason the team is considering this is as a way to kick-start a rebuild, and if they can't get the pieces to do it, then what would be the point?
Yes, he may leave as a free agent, and that is unfortunate. Yes, the team is heading into uncharted lottery-pick territory, and could be terrible for a long time. If the return is indeed lower than what is being reported, then trading Iginla does not really make much difference one way or the other. But is all of this really worth the anger and consternation? Get a grip people. It's a game.
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This team is far too asset poor to let sentimentality impair the management of those assets. We're four years into what's shaping into a long, long playoff drought. Our enduring delusion about being 'in the mix' has made us the laughing stock of the league. The only teams as bad as the Flames have substantially better asset pools. This is going to be as grim a ride as a Flames fan as the Young Guns era. And given we're a cap payroll team, I don't expect fans to be as forgiving this time around. But I doubt they'll be mad; they'll just be indifferent.